9 ideas
14713 | Truth in a scenario is the negation in that scenario being a priori incoherent [Chalmers] |
13591 | Quantified modal logic collapses if essence is withdrawn [Quine] |
13590 | Essences can make sense in a particular context or enquiry, as the most basic predicates [Quine] |
8483 | Necessity is relative to context; it is what is assumed in an inquiry [Quine] |
13589 | Possible worlds are a way to dramatise essentialism, and yet they presuppose essentialism [Quine] |
13588 | A rigid designator (for all possible worlds) picks out an object by its essential traits [Quine] |
13592 | Beliefs can be ascribed to machines [Quine] |
14712 | A sentence is a priori if no possible way the world might actually be could make it false [Chalmers] |
6649 | Chomsky now says concepts are basically innate, as well as syntax [Chomsky, by Lowe] |