15 ideas
12442 | 'Mickey Mouse is a fictional mouse' is true without a truthmaker [Azzouni] |
12439 | Truth is dispensable, by replacing truth claims with the sentence itself [Azzouni] |
12437 | Truth lets us assent to sentences we can't explicitly exhibit [Azzouni] |
12446 | Names function the same way, even if there is no object [Azzouni] |
12447 | That all existents have causal powers is unknowable; the claim is simply an epistemic one [Azzouni] |
12445 | If fictional objects really don't exist, then they aren't abstract objects [Azzouni] |
12449 | Modern metaphysics often derives ontology from the logical forms of sentences [Azzouni] |
12440 | If objectual quantifiers ontologically commit, so does the metalanguage for its semantics [Azzouni] |
12438 | In the vernacular there is no unequivocal ontological commitment [Azzouni] |
12441 | We only get ontology from semantics if we have already smuggled it in [Azzouni] |
9103 | A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind [William of Ockham] |
12448 | Things that don't exist don't have any properties [Azzouni] |
490 | Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus] |
9104 | A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing [William of Ockham] |
12450 | The periodic table not only defines the elements, but also excludes other possible elements [Azzouni] |