13 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
9169 | A statement can be metaphysically necessary and epistemologically contingent [Putnam] |
5819 | Conceivability is no proof of possibility [Putnam] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
9168 | I can't distinguish elm trees, but I mean by 'elm' the same set of trees as everybody else [Putnam] |
5820 | 'Water' has an unnoticed indexical component, referring to stuff around here [Putnam] |
9170 | We need to recognise the contribution of society and of the world in determining reference [Putnam] |
5817 | Language is more like a cooperative steamship than an individual hammer [Putnam] |
23395 | Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden] |
23394 | If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi] |
23396 | Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi] |
23397 | Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi] |
5818 | If water is H2O in the actual world, there is no possible world where it isn't H2O [Putnam] |