10 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
16186 | The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen] |
16187 | The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen] |
16190 | BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen] |
15538 | Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis] |
15537 | If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis] |
15536 | We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis] |
16188 | Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |