15 ideas
18889 | Ostensive definitions needn't involve pointing, but must refer to something specific [Salmon,N] |
14627 | S4, and therefore S5, are invalid for metaphysical modality [Salmon,N, by Williamson] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
18888 | Essentialism says some properties must be possessed, if a thing is to exist [Salmon,N] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
18886 | Frege's 'sense' solves four tricky puzzles [Salmon,N] |
18887 | The perfect case of direct reference is a variable which has been assigned a value [Salmon,N] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
18891 | Nothing in the direct theory of reference blocks anti-essentialism; water structure might have been different [Salmon,N] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |