24 ideas
9593 | Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson] |
9594 | Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth [Williamson] |
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
9601 | The realist/anti-realist debate is notoriously obscure and fruitless [Williamson] |
9599 | There cannot be vague objects, so there may be no such thing as a mountain [Williamson] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
9602 | Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
12732 | Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz] |
9598 | Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking [Williamson] |
16536 | Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe on Williamson] |
9596 | We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson] |
9597 | There are 'armchair' truths which are not a priori, because experience was involved [Williamson] |
9592 | Intuition is neither powerful nor vacuous, but reveals linguistic or conceptual competence [Williamson] |
20181 | When analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they present intuitions as their evidence [Williamson] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
19438 | Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz] |
19415 | Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |
19439 | God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz] |