9 ideas
11970 | Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan] |
11969 | Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan] |
11971 | The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan] |
11972 | Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan] |
11973 | Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
17613 | We should judge principles by the science, not science by some fixed principles [Zermelo] |
11967 | Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan] |