12 ideas
18889 | Ostensive definitions needn't involve pointing, but must refer to something specific [Salmon,N] |
14627 | S4, and therefore S5, are invalid for metaphysical modality [Salmon,N, by Williamson] |
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
10066 | Putnam coined the term 'if-thenism' [Putnam, by Musgrave] |
18888 | Essentialism says some properties must be possessed, if a thing is to exist [Salmon,N] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
18886 | Frege's 'sense' solves four tricky puzzles [Salmon,N] |
18887 | The perfect case of direct reference is a variable which has been assigned a value [Salmon,N] |
18891 | Nothing in the direct theory of reference blocks anti-essentialism; water structure might have been different [Salmon,N] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |