10 ideas
8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo] |
8865 | If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo] |
8863 | We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo] |
8862 | Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo] |
8864 | We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo] |
14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
8858 | Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo] |
2596 | Maybe mind and body are parallel, like two good clocks [Leibniz] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |
2595 | If the universe is a perfect agreement of uncommunicating substances, there must be a common source [Leibniz] |