13 ideas
| 5831 | The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP] |
| 21697 | The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine] |
| 8250 | So-called 'free logic' operates without existence assumptions [Meinong, by George/Van Evra] |
| 21698 | All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine] |
| 5829 | We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP] |
| 5830 | The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP] |
| 21696 | Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine] |
| 8719 | There can be impossible and contradictory objects, if they can have properties [Meinong, by Friend] |
| 8971 | There are objects of which it is true that there are no such objects [Meinong] |
| 8718 | Meinong says an object need not exist, but must only have properties [Meinong, by Friend] |
| 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] |
| 5826 | The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it [Schwartz,SP] |