14 ideas
5637 | Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton] |
13639 | Quine says higher-order items are intensional, and lack a clearly defined identity relation [Quine, by Shapiro] |
9175 | We may fix the reference of 'Cicero' by a description, but thereafter the name is rigid [Kripke] |
9171 | The function of names is simply to refer [Kripke] |
21557 | Russell confused use and mention, and reduced classes to properties, not to language [Quine, by Lackey] |
9174 | It is necessary that this table is not made of ice, but we don't know it a priori [Kripke] |
9172 | A 'rigid designator' designates the same object in all possible worlds [Kripke] |
9173 | We cannot say that Nixon might have been a different man from the one he actually was [Kripke] |
9176 | Modal statements about this table never refer to counterparts; that confuses epistemology and metaphysics [Kripke] |
9177 | Identity theorists must deny that pains can be imagined without brain states [Kripke] |
9178 | Pain, unlike heat, is picked out by an essential property [Kripke] |
5636 | Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton] |
5660 | Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton] |
5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |