7 ideas
12221 | 'Corner quotes' (quasi-quotation) designate 'whatever these terms designate' [Quine] |
19321 | We might do without names, by converting them into predicates [Quine, by Kirkham] |
8443 | Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa] |
8638 | Thomae's idea of abstract from peculiarities gives a general concept, and leaves the peculiarities [Frege on Thomae] |
8442 | What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa] |
8445 | The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa] |
8444 | Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa] |