13 ideas
17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
17988 | Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
17989 | Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
17991 | Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |