18 ideas
23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
10928 | Maybe we can quantify modally if the objects are intensional, but it seems unlikely [Quine] |
23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
10925 | Failure of substitutivity shows that a personal name is not purely referential [Quine] |
23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |
10926 | Quantifying into referentially opaque contexts often produces nonsense [Quine] |
23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
10930 | Quantification into modal contexts requires objects to have an essence [Quine] |
14645 | To be necessarily greater than 7 is not a trait of 7, but depends on how 7 is referred to [Quine] |
9201 | Whether 9 is necessarily greater than 7 depends on how '9' is described [Quine, by Fine,K] |
10927 | Necessity only applies to objects if they are distinctively specified [Quine] |
9203 | We can't quantify in modal contexts, because the modality depends on descriptions, not objects [Quine, by Fine,K] |
23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
10931 | We can't say 'necessarily if x is in water then x dissolves' if we can't quantify modally [Quine] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |