9 ideas
8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
8962 | 'There are shapes which are never exemplified' is the toughest example for nominalists [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8961 | Nominalists are motivated by Ockham's Razor and a distrust of unobservables [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
14617 | Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker] |
8963 | Four theories of possible worlds: conceptualist, combinatorial, abstract, or concrete [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
14616 | A 'Russellian proposition' is an ordered sequence of individual, properties and relations [Stalnaker] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |