11 ideas
| 16186 | The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen] |
| 16187 | The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen] |
| 16190 | BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen] |
| 8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
| 16188 | Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen] |
| 10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
| 21277 | Even an imperfect machine can exhibit obvious design [Paley] |
| 21275 | Unlike a stone, the parts of a watch are obviously assembled in order to show the time [Paley] |
| 21276 | From the obvious purpose and structure of a watch we must infer that it was designed [Paley] |
| 21357 | No organ shows purpose more obviously than the eyelid [Paley] |
| 21278 | All the signs of design found in a watch are also found in nature [Paley] |