17 ideas
12442 | 'Mickey Mouse is a fictional mouse' is true without a truthmaker [Azzouni] |
12439 | Truth is dispensable, by replacing truth claims with the sentence itself [Azzouni] |
12437 | Truth lets us assent to sentences we can't explicitly exhibit [Azzouni] |
12446 | Names function the same way, even if there is no object [Azzouni] |
12447 | That all existents have causal powers is unknowable; the claim is simply an epistemic one [Azzouni] |
12445 | If fictional objects really don't exist, then they aren't abstract objects [Azzouni] |
12449 | Modern metaphysics often derives ontology from the logical forms of sentences [Azzouni] |
12440 | If objectual quantifiers ontologically commit, so does the metalanguage for its semantics [Azzouni] |
12438 | In the vernacular there is no unequivocal ontological commitment [Azzouni] |
12441 | We only get ontology from semantics if we have already smuggled it in [Azzouni] |
18528 | The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol] |
12448 | Things that don't exist don't have any properties [Azzouni] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
16589 | Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
12450 | The periodic table not only defines the elements, but also excludes other possible elements [Azzouni] |
16651 | God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol] |