8 ideas
22518 | The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle] |
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] |
18383 | Plantinga says there is just this world, with possibilities expressed in propositions [Plantinga, by Armstrong] |
11891 | Possibilities for an individual can only refer to that individual, in some possible world [Plantinga, by Mackie,P] |
16566 | Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle] |
9419 | A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis] |
20704 | A possible world contains a being of maximal greatness - which is existence in all worlds [Plantinga, by Davies,B] |