12 ideas
9764 | Inspiration and social improvement need wisdom, but not professional philosophy [Quine] |
13966 | Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames] |
9763 | For a good theory of the world, we must focus on our flabby foundational vocabulary [Quine] |
13974 | If philosophy is analysis of meaning, available to all competent speakers, what's left for philosophers? [Soames] |
11211 | If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt] |
11210 | Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt] |
11212 | The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt] |
13969 | Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames] |
13973 | A key achievement of Kripke is showing that important modalities are not linguistic in source [Soames] |
13968 | Kripkean possible worlds are abstract maximal states in which the real world could have been [Soames] |
13972 | Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |