Ideas from 'Apriority and Existence' by Stephen Yablo [2000], by Theme Structure

[found in 'New Essays on the A Priori' (ed/tr Boghossian,P /Peacocke,C) [OUP 2000,0-19-924127-9]].

green numbers give full details    |     back to texts     |     expand these ideas

---

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 4. Alethic Modal Logic

8859	The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

8865	If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise?

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

8863	We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 9. Fictional Mathematics

8862	Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 7. Fictionalism

8864	We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

8858	Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor

8861	Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential