10 ideas
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
9465 | Substitutional universal quantification retains truth for substitution of terms of the same type [Jacquette] |
9466 | Nominalists like substitutional quantification to avoid the metaphysics of objects [Jacquette] |
9497 | Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong] |
15550 | Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
21093 | Friendship without community spirit misses out on the main part of virtue [Hume] |
21091 | It would be absurd if even a free constitution did not impose restraints, for the public good [Hume] |
21092 | Nobility either share in the power of the whole, or they compose the power of the whole [Hume] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |