10 ideas
21546 | We can't sharply distinguish variables, domains and values, if symbols frighten us [Russell] |
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
21531 | Common sense agrees with Meinong (rather than Russell) that 'Pegasus is a flying horse' is true [Lackey on Russell] |
21545 | I prefer to deny round squares, and deal with the difficulties by the theory of denoting [Russell] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |