12 ideas
5831 | The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP] |
8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo] |
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] |
8865 | If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo] |
8863 | We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo] |
8862 | Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo] |
8864 | We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo] |
8858 | Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo] |
3178 | A fast machine could pass all behavioural tests with a vast lookup table [Block, by Rey] |
5826 | The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it [Schwartz,SP] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |