6 ideas
6343 | For Russell, both propositions and facts are arrangements of objects, so obviously they correspond [Horwich on Russell] |
8698 | Modal structuralism says mathematics studies possible structures, which may or may not be actualised [Hellman, by Friend] |
9557 | Statements of pure mathematics are elliptical for a sort of modal conditional [Hellman, by Chihara] |
10263 | Modal structuralism can only judge possibility by 'possible' models [Shapiro on Hellman] |
16861 | A false theory could hardly rival the explanatory power of natural selection [Darwin] |
7534 | In 1906, Russell decided that propositions did not, after all, exist [Russell, by Monk] |