13 ideas
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
14620 | Theories in logic are sentences closed under consequence, but in truth discussions theories have axioms [Fine,K] |
10558 | Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
14530 | The role of semantic necessity in semantics is like metaphysical necessity in metaphysics [Fine,K, by Hale/Hoffmann,A] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
10557 | Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta] |
14618 | Semantics is either an assignment of semantic values, or a theory of truth [Fine,K] |
14621 | Semantics is a body of semantic requirements, not semantic truths or assigned values [Fine,K] |
14622 | Referential semantics (unlike Fregeanism) allows objects themselves in to semantic requirements [Fine,K] |
14619 | The Quinean doubt: are semantics and facts separate, and do analytic sentences have no factual part? [Fine,K] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |