9 ideas
20947 | Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder] |
16186 | The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen] |
16187 | The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen] |
16190 | BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
16188 | Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen] |
20949 | Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder] |
7669 | We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin] |
7668 | Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin] |