17 ideas
| 10928 | Maybe we can quantify modally if the objects are intensional, but it seems unlikely [Quine] |
| 10925 | Failure of substitutivity shows that a personal name is not purely referential [Quine] |
| 10926 | Quantifying into referentially opaque contexts often produces nonsense [Quine] |
| 16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
| 10930 | Quantification into modal contexts requires objects to have an essence [Quine] |
| 14645 | To be necessarily greater than 7 is not a trait of 7, but depends on how 7 is referred to [Quine] |
| 9201 | Whether 9 is necessarily greater than 7 depends on how '9' is described [Quine, by Fine,K] |
| 10927 | Necessity only applies to objects if they are distinctively specified [Quine] |
| 9203 | We can't quantify in modal contexts, because the modality depends on descriptions, not objects [Quine, by Fine,K] |
| 436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
| 1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
| 442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
| 440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
| 441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
| 10931 | We can't say 'necessarily if x is in water then x dissolves' if we can't quantify modally [Quine] |
| 439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
| 443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |