8 ideas
21699 | Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine] |
10467 | Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John] |
10464 | A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John] |
10465 | Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John] |
14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
10466 | Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John] |
21700 | Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine] |
21701 | Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine] |