14 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
9169 | A statement can be metaphysically necessary and epistemologically contingent [Putnam] |
5819 | Conceivability is no proof of possibility [Putnam] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |