12 ideas
| 2626 | A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein] |
| 21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
| 6569 | 'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin] |
| 1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
| 18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
| 579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
| 18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
| 3790 | Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein] |
| 578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
| 1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
| 8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
| 18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |