9 ideas
3750 | "It is true that x" means no more than x [Ramsey] |
22518 | The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle] |
12432 | Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale] |
12434 | Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale] |
12435 | The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale] |
12433 | If necessity rests on linguistic conventions, those are contingent, so there is no necessity [Hale] |
12436 | Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale] |
18818 | Sentence meaning is given by the actions to which it would lead [Ramsey] |
16566 | Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle] |