10 ideas
8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo] |
18946 | Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer] |
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] |
10558 | Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta] |
10557 | Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |