9 ideas
12219 | Whether a modal claim is true depends on how the object is described [Quine, by Fine,K] |
10922 | Objects are the values of variables, so a referentially opaque context cannot be quantified into [Quine] |
16007 | I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard] |
10923 | Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine] |
16013 | Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard] |
10921 | Necessity can attach to statement-names, to statements, and to open sentences [Quine] |
10924 | Necessity is in the way in which we say things, and not things themselves [Quine] |
22474 | Unlike aesthetic evaluation, moral evaluation needs a concept of responsibility [Foot] |
22472 | The practice of justice may well need a recognition of human equality [Foot] |