11 ideas
13966 | Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames] |
13974 | If philosophy is analysis of meaning, available to all competent speakers, what's left for philosophers? [Soames] |
18261 | A simplification which is complete constitutes a definition [Kant] |
22275 | Logic gives us the necessary rules which show us how we ought to think [Kant] |
13969 | Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames] |
9212 | Possible states of affairs are not propositions; a proposition can't be a state of affairs! [Fine,K] |
13973 | A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames] |
13968 | Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been [Soames] |
9213 | The actual world is a possible world, so we can't define possible worlds as 'what might have been' [Fine,K] |
18260 | If we knew what we know, we would be astonished [Kant] |
13972 | Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames] |