8 ideas
21677 | How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero] |
15533 | We can quantify over fictions by quantifying for real over their names [Lewis] |
15534 | We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis] |
15532 | 'Allists' embrace the existence of all controversial entities; 'noneists' reject all but the obvious ones [Lewis] |
15535 | We can't accept a use of 'existence' that says only some of the things there are actually exist [Lewis] |
17503 | Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides] |
21667 | Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero] |
21678 | If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero] |