9 ideas
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] |
9216 | Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K] |
9214 | Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
9215 | Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |