8 ideas
13966 | Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames] |
13974 | If philosophy is analysis of meaning, available to all competent speakers, what's left for philosophers? [Soames] |
13128 | 'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins] |
13969 | Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames] |
13973 | A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames] |
13968 | Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been [Soames] |
2975 | That honey is sweet I do not affirm, but I agree that it appears so [Timon] |
13972 | Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames] |