13 ideas
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
5824 | How can an expression be a name, if names can change their denotation? [Evans] |
9038 | We must distinguish what the speaker denotes by a name, from what the name denotes [Evans] |
9042 | A private intention won't give a name a denotation; the practice needs it to be made public [Evans] |
9041 | The Causal Theory of Names is wrong, since the name 'Madagascar' actually changed denotation [Evans] |
5825 | Speakers intend to refer to items that are the source of their information [Evans] |
5823 | The intended referent of a name needs to be the cause of the speaker's information about it [Evans] |
9039 | If descriptions are sufficient for reference, then I must accept a false reference if the descriptions fit [Evans] |
9043 | We use expressions 'deferentially', to conform to the use of other people [Evans] |
9040 | Charity should minimize inexplicable error, rather than maximising true beliefs [Evans] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |