9 ideas
13966 | Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames] |
13974 | If philosophy is analysis of meaning, available to all competent speakers, what's left for philosophers? [Soames] |
13969 | Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames] |
14286 | In nearby worlds where A is true, 'if A,B' is true or false if B is true or false [Stalnaker] |
13973 | A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames] |
14285 | A possible world is the ontological analogue of hypothetical beliefs [Stalnaker] |
13968 | Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been [Soames] |
16383 | Puzzled Pierre has two mental files about the same object [Recanati on Kripke] |
13972 | Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames] |