26 ideas
9593 | Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson] |
6021 | It is only when we say a proposition that we speak truly or falsely [Sext.Empiricus] |
9594 | Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth [Williamson] |
16985 | Possible worlds allowed the application of set-theoretic models to modal logic [Kripke] |
6020 | 'Man is a rational mortal animal' is equivalent to 'if something is a man, that thing is a rational mortal animal' [Sext.Empiricus] |
16982 | A man has two names if the historical chains are different - even if they are the same! [Kripke] |
9601 | The realist/anti-realist debate is notoriously obscure and fruitless [Williamson] |
9599 | There cannot be vague objects, so there may be no such thing as a mountain [Williamson] |
9602 | Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson] |
16981 | With the necessity of self-identity plus Leibniz's Law, identity has to be an 'internal' relation [Kripke] |
4942 | The indiscernibility of identicals is as self-evident as the law of contradiction [Kripke] |
16984 | I don't think possible worlds reductively reveal the natures of modal operators etc. [Kripke] |
9598 | Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking [Williamson] |
9385 | The very act of designating of an object with properties gives knowledge of a contingent truth [Kripke] |
16536 | Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe on Williamson] |
9596 | We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson] |
4943 | Instead of talking about possible worlds, we can always say "It is possible that.." [Kripke] |
16983 | Probability with dice uses possible worlds, abstractions which fictionally simplify things [Kripke] |
9597 | There are 'armchair' truths which are not a priori, because experience was involved [Williamson] |
9592 | Intuition is neither powerful nor vacuous, but reveals linguistic or conceptual competence [Williamson] |
20181 | When analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they present intuitions as their evidence [Williamson] |
6026 | How can you investigate without some preconception of your object? [Sext.Empiricus] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
6032 | Right actions, once done, are those with a reasonable justification [Sext.Empiricus] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |
1517 | The tektraktys (1+2+3+4=10) is the 'fount of ever-flowing nature' [Sext.Empiricus] |