11 ideas
9390 | Logic guides thinking, but it isn't a substitute for it [Rumfitt] |
12154 | Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry] |
8969 | We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne] |
9389 | Vague membership of sets is possible if the set is defined by its concept, not its members [Rumfitt] |
16075 | Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman on Geach] |
12152 | Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as' [Geach] |
16073 | Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Geach, by Wasserman] |
23633 | Many truths seem obvious, and point to universal agreement - which is what we find [Reid] |
23630 | Only philosophers treat ideas as objects [Reid] |
23629 | The ambiguity of words impedes the advancement of knowledge [Reid] |
23632 | Similar effects come from similar causes, and causes are only what are sufficient for the effects [Reid] |