8 ideas
16252 | Metaphysics uses empty words, or just produces pseudo-statements [Carnap] |
21677 | How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero] |
15538 | Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis] |
15537 | If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis] |
15536 | We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis] |
21667 | Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |
21678 | If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero] |