11 ideas
9123 | Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen] |
14212 | A consistent theory just needs one model; isomorphic versions will do too, and large domains provide those [Lewis] |
14213 | Anti-realists see the world as imaginary, or lacking joints, or beyond reference, or beyond truth [Lewis] |
14210 | A gerrymandered mereological sum can be a mess, but still have natural joints [Lewis] |
14215 | Causal theories of reference make errors in reference easy [Lewis] |
14209 | Descriptive theories remain part of the theory of reference (with seven mild modifications) [Lewis] |
9261 | The 'Ethics' is disappointing, because it fails to try to justify our duties [Prichard] |
9262 | The mistake is to think we can prove what can only be seen directly in moral thinking [Prichard] |
9260 | Virtues won't generate an obligation, so it isn't a basis for morality [Prichard] |
9259 | We feel obligations to overcome our own failings, and these are not relations to other people [Prichard] |
9258 | If pain were instrinsically wrong, it would be immoral to inflict it on ourselves [Prichard] |