11 ideas
8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo] |
8865 | If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo] |
18253 | I wish to go straight from cardinals to reals (as ratios), leaving out the rationals [Frege] |
8863 | We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo] |
18166 | The loss of my Rule V seems to make foundations for arithmetic impossible [Frege] |
8862 | Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo] |
8864 | We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo] |
8858 | Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo] |
18269 | Logical objects are extensions of concepts, or ranges of values of functions [Frege] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |
9425 | Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis] |