13 ideas
9169 | A statement can be metaphysically necessary and epistemologically contingent [Putnam] |
5819 | Conceivability is no proof of possibility [Putnam] |
2170 | Homer does not distinguish between soul and body [Homer, by Williams,B] |
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] |
2171 | The 'will' doesn't exist; there is just conclusion, then action [Homer, by Williams,B] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
21819 | Plato says the Good produces the Intellectual-Principle, which in turn produces the Soul [Homer, by Plotinus] |
11388 | Let there be one ruler [Homer] |
5818 | If water is H2O in the actual world, there is no possible world where it isn't H2O [Putnam] |
14829 | Homer so enjoys the company of the gods that he must have been deeply irreligious [Homer, by Nietzsche] |