9 ideas
16567 | Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D] |
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] |
8863 | We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo] |
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] |
13128 | 'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |