8 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
7746 | We don't normally think of names as having senses (e.g. we don't give definitions of them) [Searle] |
7747 | How can a proper name be correlated with its object if it hasn't got a sense? [Searle] |
7748 | 'Aristotle' means more than just 'an object that was christened "Aristotle"' [Searle] |
7749 | Reference for proper names presupposes a set of uniquely referring descriptions [Searle] |
7750 | Proper names are logically connected with their characteristics, in a loose way [Searle] |
5451 | Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress [Popper, by Mautner] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |