15 ideas
9108 | From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham] |
15549 | If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker? [Lewis] |
9107 | A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing [William of Ockham] |
16300 | Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [William of Ockham, by Halbach] |
9106 | The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men [William of Ockham] |
14212 | A consistent theory just needs one model; isomorphic versions will do too, and large domains provide those [Lewis] |
9113 | Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things [William of Ockham] |
9110 | The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb [William of Ockham] |
14213 | Anti-realists see the world as imaginary, or lacking joints, or beyond reference, or beyond truth [Lewis] |
15388 | Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify [William of Ockham] |
14210 | A gerrymandered mereological sum can be a mess, but still have natural joints [Lewis] |
9109 | If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible [William of Ockham] |
14215 | Causal theories of reference make errors in reference easy [Lewis] |
14209 | Descriptive theories remain part of the theory of reference (with seven mild modifications) [Lewis] |
9105 | Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language [William of Ockham] |