10 ideas
9169 | A statement can be metaphysically necessary and epistemologically contingent [Putnam] |
5819 | Conceivability is no proof of possibility [Putnam] |
9168 | I can't distinguish elm trees, but I mean by 'elm' the same set of trees as everybody else [Putnam] |
5820 | 'Water' has an unnoticed indexical component, referring to stuff around here [Putnam] |
9170 | We need to recognise the contribution of society and of the world in determining reference [Putnam] |
22307 | Propositions don't name facts, because two opposed propositions can match one fact [Russell] |
5817 | Language is more like a cooperative steamship than an individual hammer [Putnam] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
5818 | If water is H2O in the actual world, there is no possible world where it isn't H2O [Putnam] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |