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Full Idea
Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity.
Gist of Idea
Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity
Source
David Kaplan (Transworld Heir Lines [1967], p.97)
Book Ref
'The Possible and the Actual', ed/tr. Loux,Michael J. [Cornell 1979], p.97
A Reaction
An important observation, which explains why the modern obsession with logic has often led us down the metaphysical primrose path to ontological hell.
11973 | Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan] |
11972 | Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan] |
11967 | Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan] |
11970 | Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan] |
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] |