9 ideas
13966 | Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames] |
13974 | If philosophy is analysis of meaning, available to all competent speakers, what's left for philosophers? [Soames] |
15575 | Knowledge is not a static set of correct propositions, but a continuing search for better interpretations [Polt] |
19405 | Substances are in harmony, because they each express the one reality in themselves [Leibniz] |
13969 | Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames] |
15568 | When we consider possibilities, there must be something we are considering [Polt] |
13973 | A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames] |
13968 | Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been [Soames] |
13972 | Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames] |