11 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
15545 | Armstrong's analysis seeks truthmakers rather than definitions [Lewis] |
21560 | Any linguistic expression may lack meaning when taken out of context [Russell] |
21561 | 'The number one is bald' or 'the number one is fond of cream cheese' are meaningless [Russell] |
15546 | Predications aren't true because of what exists, but of how it exists [Lewis] |
15548 | Say 'truth is supervenient on being', but construe 'being' broadly [Lewis] |
14399 | Presentism says only the present exists, so there is nothing for tensed truths to supervene on [Lewis] |
18130 | Axiom of Reducibility: there is always a function of the lowest possible order in a given level [Russell, by Bostock] |
15543 | How do things combine to make states of affairs? Constituents can repeat, and fail to combine [Lewis] |
21562 | There is no complexity without relations, so no propositions, and no truth [Russell] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |