15 ideas
23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
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] |
23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |
23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
18888 | Essentialism says some properties must be possessed, if a thing is to exist [Salmon,N] |
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] |
23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |
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] |