9 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
18935 | Semantic theory should specify when an act of naming is successful [Sawyer] |
18945 | Millians say a name just means its object [Sawyer] |
18934 | Sentences with empty names can be understood, be co-referential, and even be true [Sawyer] |
18938 | Frege's compositional account of truth-vaues makes 'Pegasus doesn't exist' neither true nor false [Sawyer] |
18947 | Definites descriptions don't solve the empty names problem, because the properties may not exist [Sawyer] |
14962 | Bodies don't becomes scattered by losing small or minor parts [Cartwright,R] |
14961 | Clearly a pipe can survive being taken apart [Cartwright,R] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |