Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 34
Significance/Principle of significance/Peacocke: if we can imagine that an evidence supports a hypothesis, then this is not sufficient to show that the hypothesis is significant.
>Evidence, >Confirmation, >Verification, >Verifiability.
It could be that either the hypothesis or the evidence is independent of the other.
>Dependence, >Independence.
I 113
Principle of sensitivity: it is a priori and necessary that the thinker can on evidence* think for x the thought that x (shortened).
I 114
Constitutive Role: everything what meets the requirements of the principle of sensitivity.
>Constitutive role.

Significance/Principle of Significance/Peacocke: if we can imagine that a proof (evidence) supports a hypothesis, then that is not sufficient for to show that the hypothesis is significant - it could be that either the hypothesis or the evidence is independent of the other.
I 141
Cognitive Significance/Frege/Peacocke: identity a = b (not a = a) - ("informative").
I 165
Cognitive Significance/Peacocke: only if it is epistemically possible that a thing that as known to me as [you] and so-and-so, perhaps might not be so-and-so - i.e. the identity is informative. (> Identity/Frege).