10 ideas
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] |
5817 | Language is more like a cooperative steamship than an individual hammer [Putnam] |
20328 | A thing is only seen as art in an 'artworld', which has a theory and a history [Danto] |
4052 | It has become normal to consider passive euthanasia while condemning active euthanasia [Rachels] |
4053 | If it is desirable that a given patient die, then moral objections to killing them do not apply [Rachels] |
5818 | If water is H2O in the actual world, there is no possible world where it isn't H2O [Putnam] |