13 ideas
8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo] |
9390 | Logic guides thinking, but it isn't a substitute for it [Rumfitt] |
8865 | If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo] |
8863 | We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo] |
8862 | Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo] |
8864 | We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo] |
15538 | Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis] |
8858 | Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo] |
15537 | If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis] |
15536 | We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis] |
9389 | Vague membership of sets is possible if the set is defined by its concept, not its members [Rumfitt] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |