20 ideas
8250 | So-called 'free logic' operates without existence assumptions [Meinong, by George/Van Evra] |
10397 | Abelard's mereology involves privileged and natural divisions, and principal parts [Abelard, by King,P] |
10396 | If 'animal' is wholly present in Socrates and an ass, then 'animal' is rational and irrational [Abelard, by King,P] |
10395 | Abelard was an irrealist about virtually everything apart from concrete individuals [Abelard, by King,P] |
15384 | Only words can be 'predicated of many'; the universality is just in its mode of signifying [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
8719 | There can be impossible and contradictory objects, if they can have properties [Meinong, by Friend] |
8718 | Meinong says an object need not exist, but must only have properties [Meinong, by Friend] |
8971 | There are objects of which it is true that there are no such objects [Meinong] |
7756 | Meinong said all objects of thought (even self-contradictions) have some sort of being [Meinong, by Lycan] |
15781 | The objects of knowledge are far more numerous than objects which exist [Meinong] |
8481 | The de dicto-de re modality distinction dates back to Abelard [Abelard, by Orenstein] |
19269 | 'Quus' means the same as 'plus' if the ingredients are less than 57; otherwise it just produces 5 [Kripke] |
19271 | No rule can be fully explained [Kripke] |
15385 | Abelard's problem is the purely singular aspects of things won't account for abstraction [Panaccio on Abelard] |
7305 | Kripke's Wittgenstein says meaning 'vanishes into thin air' [Kripke, by Miller,A] |
19270 | If you ask what is in your mind for following the addition rule, meaning just seems to vanish [Kripke] |
15383 | Nothing external can truly be predicated of an object [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
11076 | Community implies assertability-conditions rather than truth-conditions semantics [Kripke, by Hanna] |
11075 | The sceptical rule-following paradox is the basis of the private language argument [Kripke, by Hanna] |
10398 | Natural kinds are not special; they are just well-defined resemblance collections [Abelard, by King,P] |