21 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
10928 | Maybe we can quantify modally if the objects are intensional, but it seems unlikely [Quine] |
10925 | Failure of substitutivity shows that a personal name is not purely referential [Quine] |
10926 | Quantifying into referentially opaque contexts often produces nonsense [Quine] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
10930 | Quantification into modal contexts requires objects to have an essence [Quine] |
14645 | To be necessarily greater than 7 is not a trait of 7, but depends on how 7 is referred to [Quine] |
9201 | Whether 9 is necessarily greater than 7 depends on how '9' is described [Quine, by Fine,K] |
10927 | Necessity only applies to objects if they are distinctively specified [Quine] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
9203 | We can't quantify in modal contexts, because the modality depends on descriptions, not objects [Quine, by Fine,K] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
10931 | We can't say 'necessarily if x is in water then x dissolves' if we can't quantify modally [Quine] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |