11 ideas
12766 | Logical space is abstracted from the actual world [Stalnaker] |
10792 | The substitutional quantifier is not in competition with the standard interpretation [Kripke, by Marcus (Barcan)] |
12764 | For the bare particular view, properties must be features, not just groups of objects [Stalnaker] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
12761 | An essential property is one had in all the possible worlds where a thing exists [Stalnaker] |
12763 | Necessarily self-identical, or being what it is, or its world-indexed properties, aren't essential [Stalnaker] |
12762 | Bare particular anti-essentialism makes no sense within modal logic semantics [Stalnaker] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
12765 | Why imagine that Babe Ruth might be a billiard ball; nothing useful could be said about the ball [Stalnaker] |
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] |