8 ideas
12219 | Whether a modal claim is true depends on how the object is described [Quine, by Fine,K] |
10922 | Objects are the values of variables, so a referentially opaque context cannot be quantified into [Quine] |
14617 | Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker] |
10923 | Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine] |
10921 | Necessity can attach to statement-names, to statements, and to open sentences [Quine] |
10924 | Necessity is in the way in which we say things, and not things themselves [Quine] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
14616 | A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations [Stalnaker] |