9 ideas
12766 | Logical space is abstracted from the actual world [Stalnaker] |
9182 | Ancient names like 'Obadiah' depend on tradition, not on where the name originated [Dummett] |
10245 | One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré] |
12764 | For the bare particular view, properties must be features, not just groups of objects [Stalnaker] |
12761 | An essential property is one had in all the possible worlds where a thing exists [Stalnaker] |
12763 | Necessarily self-identical, or being what it is, or its world-indexed properties, aren't essential [Stalnaker] |
12762 | Bare particular anti-essentialism makes no sense within modal logic semantics [Stalnaker] |
12765 | Why imagine that Babe Ruth might be a billiard ball; nothing useful could be said about the ball [Stalnaker] |
9181 | The causal theory of reference can't distinguish just hearing a name from knowing its use [Dummett] |