11 ideas
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
10529 | If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K] |
10530 | Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K] |
14633 | How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson] |
14635 | An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson] |
14632 | Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
21227 | The Cogito demands a bridge to the world, and ends in isolating the ego [Velarde-Mayol] |
21215 | The representation may not be a likeness [Velarde-Mayol] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |
21219 | Find the essence by varying an object, to see what remains invariable [Velarde-Mayol] |