9 ideas
15538 | Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis] |
15537 | If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis] |
15536 | We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis] |
14361 | Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson] |
8434 | In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
9419 | A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |