9 ideas
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
10467 | Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John] |
10464 | A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John] |
10465 | Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John] |
15990 | Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke] |
10466 | Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John] |
15994 | If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |