9 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
15527 | Defining terms either enables elimination, or shows that they don't require elimination [Lewis] |
16655 | Different genera are delimited by modes of predication, which rest on modes of being [Aquinas] |
15530 | A logically determinate name names the same thing in every possible world [Lewis] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
15526 | There is a method for defining new scientific terms just using the terms we already understand [Lewis] |
15528 | A Ramsey sentence just asserts that a theory can be realised, without saying by what [Lewis] |
15531 | The Ramsey sentence of a theory says that it has at least one realisation [Lewis] |
15529 | It is better to have one realisation of a theory than many - but it may not always be possible [Lewis] |