10 ideas
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
18823 | To say there could have been people who don't exist, but deny those possible things, rejects Barcan [Stalnaker, by Rumfitt] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
6019 | If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus] |
16409 | Unlike Lewis, I defend an actualist version of counterpart theory [Stalnaker] |
16411 | If possible worlds really differ, I can't be in more than one at a time [Stalnaker] |
16412 | If counterparts exist strictly in one world only, this seems to be extreme invariant essentialism [Stalnaker] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
16410 | Extensional semantics has individuals and sets; modal semantics has intensions, functions of world to extension [Stalnaker] |