9 ideas
19494 | Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo] |
4483 | If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux] |
4481 | Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux] |
4477 | Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux] |
4482 | Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux] |
4478 | Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux] |
4480 | Times and places are identified by objects, so cannot be used in a theory of object-identity [Loux] |
19493 | Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |