14 ideas
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
9497 | Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong] |
15550 | Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |