24 ideas
12442 | 'Mickey Mouse is a fictional mouse' is true without a truthmaker [Azzouni] |
12439 | Truth is dispensable, by replacing truth claims with the sentence itself [Azzouni] |
12437 | Truth lets us assent to sentences we can't explicitly exhibit [Azzouni] |
17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
12446 | Names function the same way, even if there is no object [Azzouni] |
17988 | Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber] |
12447 | That all existents have causal powers is unknowable; the claim is simply an epistemic one [Azzouni] |
12445 | If fictional objects really don't exist, then they aren't abstract objects [Azzouni] |
12449 | Modern metaphysics often derives ontology from the logical forms of sentences [Azzouni] |
12440 | If objectual quantifiers ontologically commit, so does the metalanguage for its semantics [Azzouni] |
12438 | In the vernacular there is no unequivocal ontological commitment [Azzouni] |
12441 | We only get ontology from semantics if we have already smuggled it in [Azzouni] |
17989 | Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber] |
8915 | How we refer to abstractions is much less clear than how we refer to other things [Rosen] |
12448 | Things that don't exist don't have any properties [Azzouni] |
8917 | The Way of Abstraction used to say an abstraction is an idea that was formed by abstracting [Rosen] |
8912 | Nowadays abstractions are defined as non-spatial, causally inert things [Rosen] |
8913 | Chess may be abstract, but it has existed in specific space and time [Rosen] |
8914 | Sets are said to be abstract and non-spatial, but a set of books can be on a shelf [Rosen] |
8916 | Conflating abstractions with either sets or universals is a big claim, needing a big defence [Rosen] |
8918 | Functional terms can pick out abstractions by asserting an equivalence relation [Rosen] |
8919 | Abstraction by equivalence relationships might prove that a train is an abstract entity [Rosen] |
17991 | Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber] |
12450 | The periodic table not only defines the elements, but also excludes other possible elements [Azzouni] |