13 ideas
11193 | Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna] |
20183 | So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen] |
15375 | If terms change their designations in different states, they are functions from states to objects [Fitting] |
15376 | Intensional logic adds a second type of quantification, over intensional objects, or individual concepts [Fitting] |
15378 | Awareness logic adds the restriction of an awareness function to epistemic logic [Fitting] |
15379 | Justication logics make explicit the reasons for mathematical truth in proofs [Fitting] |
11026 | Classical logic is deliberately extensional, in order to model mathematics [Fitting] |
11028 | λ-abstraction disambiguates the scope of modal operators [Fitting] |
11209 | The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna] |
11204 | The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna] |
15036 | An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio] |
15377 | Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds [Fitting] |
20182 | The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen] |