17 ideas
14600 | Analysis aims at secure necessary and sufficient conditions [Schaffer,J] |
14603 | 'Reification' occurs if we mistake a concept for a thing [Schaffer,J] |
14607 | T adds □p→p for reflexivity, and is ideal for modeling lawhood [Schaffer,J] |
8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo] |
8865 | If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo] |
8863 | We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo] |
14604 | If a notion is ontologically basic, it should be needed in our best attempt at science [Schaffer,J] |
8862 | Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo] |
14599 | Three types of reduction: Theoretical (of terms), Definitional (of concepts), Ontological (of reality) [Schaffer,J] |
8864 | We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo] |
14605 | Tropes are the same as events [Schaffer,J] |
8858 | Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo] |
14601 | Individuation aims to count entities, by saying when there is one [Schaffer,J] |
14606 | Only ideal conceivability could indicate what is possible [Schaffer,J] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |