11 ideas
10845 | To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis] |
10847 | Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis] |
10846 | Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis] |
9406 | A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it [Quinton] |
9052 | Vague predicates lack application; there are no borderline cases; vague F is not F [Unger, by Keefe/Smith] |
15730 | Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention [Quinton] |
15728 | The naturalness of a class depends as much on the observers as on the objects [Quinton] |
9407 | Properties imply natural classes which can be picked out by everybody [Quinton] |
15729 | Uninstantiated properties must be defined using the instantiated ones [Quinton] |
16070 | There are no objects with proper parts; there are only mereological simples [Unger, by Wasserman] |
8520 | An individual is a union of a group of qualities and a position [Quinton, by Campbell,K] |