14 ideas
19433 | The universe is infinitely varied, so the Buridan's Ass dilemma could never happen [Leibniz] |
8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo] |
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
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] |
8858 | Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo] |
19434 | There may be a world where dogs smell their game at a thousand leagues [Leibniz] |
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] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |