15 ideas
14231 | We should always apply someone's theory of meaning to their own utterances [Liggins] |
23548 | Indeterminacy is in conflict with classical logic [Fine,K] |
14232 | We normally formalise 'There are Fs' with singular quantification and predication, but this may be wrong [Liggins] |
23539 | Classical semantics has referents for names, extensions for predicates, and T or F for sentences [Fine,K] |
23544 | Local indeterminacy concerns a single object, and global indeterminacy covers a range [Fine,K] |
23540 | Conjoining two indefinites by related sentences seems to produce a contradiction [Fine,K] |
23546 | Standardly vagueness involves borderline cases, and a higher standpoint from which they can be seen [Fine,K] |
23542 | Identifying vagueness with ignorance is the common mistake of confusing symptoms with cause [Fine,K] |
23541 | Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man' [Fine,K] |
23545 | We do not have an intelligible concept of a borderline case [Fine,K] |
14233 | Nihilists needn't deny parts - they can just say that some of the xs are among the ys [Liggins] |
23547 | It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival [Fine,K] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
23543 | We identify laws with regularities because we mistakenly identify causes with their symptoms [Fine,K] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |