23 ideas
9593 | Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson] |
9208 | Philosophers with a new concept are like children with a new toy [Fine,K] |
9594 | Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth [Williamson] |
15382 | Paraconsistent reasoning can just mean responding sensibly to inconsistencies [Jago] |
9210 | Possible objects are abstract; actual concrete objects are possible; so abstract/concrete are compatible [Fine,K] |
9211 | A non-standard realism, with no privileged standpoint, might challenge its absoluteness or coherence [Fine,K] |
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] |
9202 | Objects, as well as sentences, can have logical form [Fine,K] |
9602 | Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson] |
9206 | We must distinguish between the identity or essence of an object, and its necessary features [Fine,K] |
9205 | The three basic types of necessity are metaphysical, natural and normative [Fine,K] |
9209 | Metaphysical necessity may be 'whatever the circumstance', or 'regardless of circumstances' [Fine,K] |
9200 | Empiricists suspect modal notions: either it happens or it doesn't; it is just regularities. [Fine,K] |
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] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
9207 | If sentence content is all worlds where it is true, all necessary truths have the same content! [Fine,K] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |