10 ideas
| 21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
| 18823 | To say there could have been people who don't exist, but deny those possible things, rejects Barcan [Stalnaker, by Rumfitt] |
| 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] |
| 21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
| 16410 | Extensional semantics has individuals and sets; modal semantics has intensions, functions of world to extension [Stalnaker] |
| 21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
| 21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
| 7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |