14 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 15163 | The interest of quantified modal logic is its metaphysical necessity and essentialism [Soames] |
| 15158 | Indefinite descriptions are quantificational in subject position, but not in predicate position [Soames] |
| 15157 | Recognising the definite description 'the man' as a quantifier phrase, not a singular term, is a real insight [Soames] |
| 15156 | The universal and existential quantifiers were chosen to suit mathematics [Soames] |
| 8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
| 15161 | There are more metaphysically than logically necessary truths [Soames] |
| 15162 | We understand metaphysical necessity intuitively, from ordinary life [Soames] |
| 15152 | To study meaning, study truth conditions, on the basis of syntax, and representation by the parts [Soames] |
| 15153 | Tarski's account of truth-conditions is too weak to determine meanings [Soames] |
| 8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
| 15154 | We should use cognitive states to explain representational propositions, not vice versa [Soames] |
| 8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |