7 ideas
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
14361 | Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson] |
8434 | In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich] |
21700 | Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine] |
21701 | Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
9419 | A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis] |