18 ideas
23548 | Indeterminacy is in conflict with classical logic [Fine,K] |
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
23539 | Classical semantics has referents for names, extensions for predicates, and T or F for sentences [Fine,K] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
23540 | Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K] |
23546 | Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K] |
23544 | Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K] |
23542 | Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K] |
23541 | Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
23545 | We do not have an intelligible concept of a borderline case [Fine,K] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
23547 | It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival [Fine,K] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |
19399 | Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz] |
23543 | We identify laws with regularities because we mistakenly identify causes with their symptoms [Fine,K] |