9 ideas
15545 | Armstrong's analysis seeks truthmakers rather than definitions [Lewis] |
15546 | Predications aren't true because of what exists, but of how it exists [Lewis] |
15548 | Say 'truth is supervenient on being', but construe 'being' broadly [Lewis] |
14399 | Presentism says only the present exists, so there is nothing for tensed truths to supervene on [Lewis] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
15543 | How do things combine to make states of affairs? Constituents can repeat, and fail to combine [Lewis] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
5833 | Education is the greatest of human goods [Xenophon] |