Combining Texts

Ideas for 'On the Philosophy of Logic', 'Truthmakers and Converse Barcan Formula' and 'Prologue to Ordinatio'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

2 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

15137	If 'fact' is a noun, can we name the fact that dogs bark 'Mary'? [Williamson]
	Full Idea: If one uses 'fact' as a noun, the question arises why one cannot name the fact that dogs bark 'Mary'.
	From: Timothy Williamson (Truthmakers and Converse Barcan Formula [1999], §2 n10)
	A reaction: What an intriguing thought! Must all nouns pass this test? 'The courage of the regiment was called Alfred'?

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / g. Degrees of vagueness

8946	We could make our intuitions about heaps precise with a million-valued logic [Fisher]
	Full Idea: We could construct a 1,000,000-valued logic that would allow our intuitions concerning a heap to vary exactly with the amount of sand in the heap.
	From: Jennifer Fisher (On the Philosophy of Logic [2008])
	A reaction: Presumably only an infinite number of grains of sand would then produce a true heap, and even one grain would count as a bit of a heap, which must both be wrong, so I can't see this helping much.