10 ideas
12154 | Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry] |
9558 | All scientific tests will verify mathematics, so it is a background, not something being tested [Sober] |
10496 | Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen] |
10497 | In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen] |
10495 | Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen] |
8969 | We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne] |
16075 | Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman on Geach] |
12152 | Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as' [Geach] |
16073 | Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Geach, by Wasserman] |
10498 | Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen] |