8 ideas
8463 | Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine] |
7771 | We need 'events' to explain adverbs, which are adjectival predicates of events [Davidson, by Lycan] |
8860 | Language-learning is not good enough evidence for the existence of events [Yablo on Davidson] |
15002 | If the best theory of adverbs refers to events, then our ontology should include events [Davidson, by Sider] |
8461 | The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
8462 | A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine] |