14 ideas
12223 | It is a fallacy to explain the obscure with the even more obscure [Hale/Wright] |
12230 | Singular terms refer if they make certain atomic statements true [Hale/Wright] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
12225 | Neo-Fregeanism might be better with truth-makers, rather than quantifier commitment [Hale/Wright] |
12224 | Are neo-Fregeans 'maximalists' - that everything which can exist does exist? [Hale/Wright] |
12226 | The identity of Pegasus with Pegasus may be true, despite the non-existence [Hale/Wright] |
12229 | Maybe we have abundant properties for semantics, and sparse properties for ontology [Hale/Wright] |
18443 | A successful predicate guarantees the existence of a property - the way of being it expresses [Hale/Wright] |
5960 | When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch] |
12227 | Abstractionism needs existential commitment and uniform truth-conditions [Hale/Wright] |
12228 | Equivalence abstraction refers to objects otherwise beyond our grasp [Hale/Wright] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
12231 | Reference needs truth as well as sense [Hale/Wright] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |