12 ideas
| 10429 | It is best to say that a name designates iff there is something for it to designate [Sainsbury] |
| 10425 | Definite descriptions may not be referring expressions, since they can fail to refer [Sainsbury] |
| 10438 | Definite descriptions are usually rigid in subject, but not in predicate, position [Sainsbury] |
| 23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
| 11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
| 23888 | Knowledge is beyond question, as an unavoidable component of thinking [Weil] |
| 23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
| 10432 | A new usage of a name could arise from a mistaken baptism of nothing [Sainsbury] |
| 23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
| 10434 | Even a quantifier like 'someone' can be used referentially [Sainsbury] |
| 23887 | Art (like philosophy) establishes a relation between world and self, and between oneself and others [Weil] |
| 10431 | Things are thought to have a function, even when they can't perform them [Sainsbury] |