14 ideas
7332 | There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson] |
9169 | A statement can be metaphysically necessary and epistemologically contingent [Putnam] |
5819 | Conceivability is no proof of possibility [Putnam] |
9168 | I can't distinguish elm trees, but I mean by 'elm' the same set of trees as everybody else [Putnam] |
5820 | 'Water' has an unnoticed indexical component, referring to stuff around here [Putnam] |
9170 | We need to recognise the contribution of society and of the world in determining reference [Putnam] |
7772 | Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan] |
7327 | Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A] |
7769 | You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan] |
5817 | Language is more like a cooperative steamship than an individual hammer [Putnam] |
6179 | Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5818 | If water is H2O in the actual world, there is no possible world where it isn't H2O [Putnam] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |