Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Carnap and Logical Truth', 'Physical Causation' and 'Logic for Philosophy'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
7 ideas
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 3. Types of Necessity
13721
|
'Strong' necessity in all possible worlds; 'weak' necessity in the worlds where the relevant objects exist [Sider]
|
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 5. Metaphysical Necessity
13707
|
Maybe metaphysical accessibility is intransitive, if a world in which I am a frog is impossible [Sider]
|
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity
9001
|
Frege moved Kant's question about a priori synthetic to 'how is logical certainty possible?' [Quine]
|
13709
|
Logical truths must be necessary if anything is [Sider]
|
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / b. Types of conditional
13716
|
'If B hadn't shot L someone else would have' if false; 'If B didn't shoot L, someone else did' is true [Sider]
|
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity
13717
|
Transworld identity is not a problem in de dicto sentences, which needn't identify an individual [Sider]
|
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects
13719
|
Barcan Formula problem: there might have been a ghost, despite nothing existing which could be a ghost [Sider]
|