14 ideas
9108 | From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham] |
9107 | A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing [William of Ockham] |
16300 | Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [William of Ockham, by Halbach] |
9106 | The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men [William of Ockham] |
9113 | Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things [William of Ockham] |
9110 | The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb [William of Ockham] |
15538 | Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis] |
15388 | Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify [William of Ockham] |
15537 | If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis] |
15536 | We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis] |
9109 | If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible [William of Ockham] |
9807 | In pursuing truth, anything less certain than mathematics is a waste of time [Descartes] |
9105 | Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language [William of Ockham] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |