10 ideas
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
14633 | How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson] |
14635 | An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson] |
14632 | Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
467 | A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |