8 ideas
18935 | Semantic theory should specify when an act of naming is successful [Sawyer] |
18945 | Millians say a name just means its object [Sawyer] |
18934 | Sentences with empty names can be understood, be co-referential, and even be true [Sawyer] |
18938 | Frege's compositional account of truth-vaues makes 'Pegasus doesn't exist' neither true nor false [Sawyer] |
18947 | Definites descriptions don't solve the empty names problem, because the properties may not exist [Sawyer] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
10246 | The limit of science is isomorphism of theories, with essences a matter of indifference [Weyl] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |