17 ideas
| 15163 | The interest of quantified modal logic is its metaphysical necessity and essentialism [Soames] |
| 15158 | Indefinite descriptions are quantificational in subject position, but not in predicate position [Soames] |
| 15157 | Recognising the definite description 'the man' as a quantifier phrase, not a singular term, is a real insight [Soames] |
| 15156 | The universal and existential quantifiers were chosen to suit mathematics [Soames] |
| 5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
| 15161 | There are more metaphysically than logically necessary truths [Soames] |
| 15162 | We understand metaphysical necessity intuitively, from ordinary life [Soames] |
| 12732 | Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz] |
| 5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
| 19438 | Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz] |
| 5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
| 19415 | Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz] |
| 15152 | To study meaning, study truth conditions, on the basis of syntax, and representation by the parts [Soames] |
| 15153 | Tarski's account of truth-conditions is too weak to determine meanings [Soames] |
| 15154 | We should use cognitive states to explain representational propositions, not vice versa [Soames] |
| 5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |
| 19439 | God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz] |