18 ideas
14970 | Normal system K has five axioms and rules [Cresswell] |
14971 | D is valid on every serial frame, but not where there are dead ends [Cresswell] |
14972 | S4 has 14 modalities, and always reduces to a maximum of three modal operators [Cresswell] |
14973 | In S5 all the long complex modalities reduce to just three, and their negations [Cresswell] |
14976 | Reject the Barcan if quantifiers are confined to worlds, and different things exist in other worlds [Cresswell] |
14974 | A relation is 'Euclidean' if aRb and aRc imply bRc [Cresswell] |
12750 | The question is whether force is self-sufficient in bodies, and essential, or dependent on something [Lenfant] |
13267 | Temporal parts is a crazy doctrine, because it entails constantly creating stuff ex nihilo [Thomson, by Koslicki] |
16209 | How can point-duration slices of people have beliefs or desires? [Thomson] |
14975 | A de dicto necessity is true in all worlds, but not necessarily of the same thing in each world [Cresswell] |
4058 | Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape? [Thomson] |
4062 | No one is morally required to make huge sacrifices to keep someone else alive for nine months [Thomson] |
4059 | It can't be murder for a mother to perform an abortion on herself to save her own life [Thomson] |
4057 | A newly fertilized ovum is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree [Thomson] |
4695 | Maybe abortion can be justified despite the foetus having full human rights [Thomson, by Foot] |
4696 | The foetus is safe in the womb, so abortion initiates its death, with the mother as the agent. [Foot on Thomson] |
4060 | The right to life does not bestow the right to use someone else's body to support that life [Thomson] |
4061 | The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly [Thomson] |