7 ideas
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
9212 | Possible states of affairs are not propositions; a proposition can't be a state of affairs! [Fine,K] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
9213 | The actual world is a possible world, so we can't define possible worlds as 'what might have been' [Fine,K] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
19035 | General Relativity allows substantivalism about space-time - that it has independent properties [Hoefer] |