7 ideas
10801 | Either reference really matters, or we don't need to replace it with substitutions [Quine] |
14617 | Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker] |
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] |
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] |
14616 | A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations [Stalnaker] |