20 ideas
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
23548 | Indeterminacy is in conflict with classical logic [Fine,K] |
23539 | Classical semantics has referents for names, extensions for predicates, and T or F for sentences [Fine,K] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
9497 | Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong] |
23540 | Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K] |
23546 | Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K] |
23544 | Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K] |
23542 | Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K] |
23541 | Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K] |
15550 | Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
23545 | We do not have an intelligible concept of a borderline case [Fine,K] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
23547 | It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival [Fine,K] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |
23543 | We identify laws with regularities because we mistakenly identify causes with their symptoms [Fine,K] |