9 ideas
21697 | The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine] |
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
21698 | All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine] |
21696 | Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine] |
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] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
9807 | In pursuing truth, anything less certain than mathematics is a waste of time [Descartes] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |