Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur Conan Doyle and George Bealer

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these philosophers

7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / b. Names as descriptive
9455 Maybe proper names have the content of fixing a thing's category [Bealer]
5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / b. Definite descriptions
9454 The four leading theories of definite descriptions are Frege's, Russell's, Evans's, and Prior's [Bealer]
14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction
22200 If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
22352 Out of more than a hundred planets, Earth is the only one with the idea of free will [Vonnegut]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
9452 Propositions might be reduced to functions (worlds to truth values), or ordered sets of properties and relations [Bealer]
9453 Sentences saying the same with the same rigid designators may still express different propositions [Bealer]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense
9451 Modal logic and brain science have reaffirmed traditional belief in propositions [Bealer]