Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 15
Difference picture/description/Goodman: the versions that are pictures and not descriptions have no truth value (true/false, only exists for statements). Pictures cannot be linked by conjunctions.
I 23
The uniformity of nature, about which we marvel or the unreliability about which we complain, belongs to a world that we have created ourselves.
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III 213
Descriptions/Goodman: descriptions differ not from pictures by the fact that they are more arbitrary, but they tend to belong to articulated rather than to dense schemata (dense: dense are, for example, real numbers; articulated/Goodman: articulated is the opposite of dense).
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IV 128
Description function/Goodman: e.g. suppose the movement of the moon. Does it rotate or does it not rotate? Well, yes and no. To say "something is moving relative to something else" does not mean that one does ascribe movement to it. (> motion, > relativity).
IV 128
When I say that different sides of the moon are facing the sun at different times, that is not a statement about motion, halt or rotation. Movement disappears from the sphere of facts. We produce rotation or resting of the moon.
IV 129f
Fact/Goodman: all facts threaten to dissolve in convention, all nature threatens to dissolve in tricks.