12 ideas
17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
15375 | If terms change their designations in different states, they are functions from states to objects [Fitting] |
15376 | Intensional logic adds a second type of quantification, over intensional objects, or individual concepts [Fitting] |
15378 | Awareness logic adds the restriction of an awareness function to epistemic logic [Fitting] |
15379 | Justication logics make explicit the reasons for mathematical truth in proofs [Fitting] |
11026 | Classical logic is deliberately extensional, in order to model mathematics [Fitting] |
11028 | λ-abstraction disambiguates the scope of modal operators [Fitting] |
17988 | Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber] |
17989 | Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber] |
15377 | Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds [Fitting] |
17991 | Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber] |
20948 | Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie] |