9 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
13437 | A CAR and its major PART can become identical, yet seem to have different properties [Gallois] |
16233 | Gallois hoped to clarify identity through time, but seems to make talk of it impossible [Hawley on Gallois] |
14755 | Gallois is committed to identity with respect to times, and denial of simple identity [Gallois, by Sider] |
16231 | Occasional Identity: two objects can be identical at one time, and different at others [Gallois, by Hawley] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
21700 | Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine] |
21701 | Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine] |