9 ideas
14212 | A consistent theory just needs one model; isomorphic versions will do too, and large domains provide those [Lewis] |
14213 | Anti-realists see the world as imaginary, or lacking joints, or beyond reference, or beyond truth [Lewis] |
12714 | The substantial form is the principle of action or the primitive force of acting [Leibniz] |
14210 | A gerrymandered mereological sum can be a mess, but still have natural joints [Lewis] |
12743 | A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject [Leibniz] |
14215 | Causal theories of reference make errors in reference easy [Lewis] |
14209 | Descriptive theories remain part of the theory of reference (with seven mild modifications) [Lewis] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |