15 ideas
16985 | Possible worlds allowed the application of set-theoretic models to modal logic [Kripke] |
10196 | The Axiom of Choice needs a criterion of choice [Black] |
16982 | A man has two names if the historical chains are different - even if they are the same! [Kripke] |
17945 | Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas] |
17946 | Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas] |
10194 | Two things can only be distinguished by a distinct property or a distinct relation [Black] |
16981 | With the necessity of self-identity plus Leibniz's Law, identity has to be an 'internal' relation [Kripke] |
10193 | The 'property' of self-identity is uselessly tautological [Black] |
10195 | If the universe just held two indiscernibles spheres, that refutes the Identity of Indiscernibles [Black] |
4942 | The indiscernibility of identicals is as self-evident as the law of contradiction [Kripke] |
16984 | I don't think possible worlds reductively reveal the natures of modal operators etc. [Kripke] |
9385 | The very act of designating of an object with properties gives knowledge of a contingent truth [Kripke] |
4943 | Instead of talking about possible worlds, we can always say "It is possible that.." [Kripke] |
16983 | Probability with dice uses possible worlds, abstractions which fictionally simplify things [Kripke] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |