11 ideas
13966 | Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames] |
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
13974 | If philosophy is analysis of meaning, available to all competent speakers, what's left for philosophers? [Soames] |
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
13969 | Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
13973 | A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames] |
13968 | Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been [Soames] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
13972 | Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames] |