11 ideas
12219 | Whether a modal claim is true depends on how the object is described [Quine, by Fine,K] |
21566 | 'Propositional functions' are ambiguous until the variable is given a value [Russell] |
10922 | Objects are the values of variables, so a referentially opaque context cannot be quantified into [Quine] |
21567 | 'All judgements made by Epimenedes are true' needs the judgements to be of the same type [Russell] |
23457 | Type theory cannot identify features across levels (because such predicates break the rules) [Morris,M on Russell] |
21556 | Classes are defined by propositional functions, and functions are typed, with an axiom of reducibility [Russell, by Lackey] |
21568 | A one-variable function is only 'predicative' if it is one order above its arguments [Russell] |
10923 | Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine] |
10921 | Necessity can attach to statement-names, to statements, and to open sentences [Quine] |
10924 | Necessity is in the way in which we say things, and not things themselves [Quine] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |