25 ideas
11970 | Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan] |
11989 | For Russell, expressions dependent on contingent circumstances must be eliminated [Kaplan] |
5953 | For the Cyrenaics experience was not enough to give certainty about reality [Aristippus young, by Plutarch] |
9295 | Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them [Teichmann] |
11969 | Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan] |
11971 | The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan] |
11973 | Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan] |
11972 | Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan] |
11990 | 'Haecceitism' says that sameness or difference of individuals is independent of appearances [Kaplan] |
9668 | 'Haecceitism' is common thisness under dissimilarity, or distinct thisnesses under resemblance [Kaplan] |
11991 | If quantification into modal contexts is legitimate, that seems to imply some form of haecceitism [Kaplan] |
9293 | Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world [Teichmann] |
11967 | Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan] |
14080 | Are causal descriptions part of the causal theory of reference, or are they just metasemantic? [Kaplan, by Schaffer,J] |
14894 | Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro] |
14700 | 'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter] |
3023 | Even the foolish may have some virtues [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
3026 | Actions are influenced by circumstances, so Cyrenaics say felons should be reformed, not hated [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
3024 | Cyrenaics teach that honour, justice and shame are all based on custom and fashion [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
3025 | For a Cyrenaic no one is of equal importance to himself [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
3019 | No one pleasure is different from or more pleasant than another [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
3021 | The Cyrenaics asserted that corporeal pleasures were superior to mental ones [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
3027 | Cyrenaics say wise men are self-sufficient, needing no friends [Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius] |
9294 | No individuating marks distinguish between Souls [Teichmann] |
9292 | The Soul has no particular capacity (in the way thinking belongs to the mind) [Teichmann] |