9 ideas
15538 | Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis] |
10467 | Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John] |
10464 | A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John] |
10465 | Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John] |
19347 | Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates [Perkins] |
15537 | If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis] |
15536 | We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis] |
10466 | Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |