18 ideas
12223 | It is a fallacy to explain the obscure with the even more obscure [Hale/Wright] |
10121 | Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal] |
12230 | Singular terms refer if they make certain atomic statements true [Hale/Wright] |
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
12225 | Neo-Fregeanism might be better with truth-makers, rather than quantifier commitment [Hale/Wright] |
12224 | Are neo-Fregeans 'maximalists' - that everything which can exist does exist? [Hale/Wright] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
12226 | The identity of Pegasus with Pegasus may be true, despite the non-existence [Hale/Wright] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
12229 | Maybe we have abundant properties for semantics, and sparse properties for ontology [Hale/Wright] |
18443 | A successful predicate guarantees the existence of a property - the way of being it expresses [Hale/Wright] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
12227 | Abstractionism needs existential commitment and uniform truth-conditions [Hale/Wright] |
12228 | Equivalence abstraction refers to objects otherwise beyond our grasp [Hale/Wright] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
12231 | Reference needs truth as well as sense [Hale/Wright] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |