Beyond Necessity

I have been looking at ‘Van Inwagen on Fiction, Existence, Properties, Particulars, and Method’, by Bill Vallicella ( Studia Neoaristotelic...

What does the pronoun ‘I’ refer to? Wittgenstein ( Philosophical Remarks , §64). ‘I have a pain’ is a sign of a completely different kind...

Hume, Treatise Book I Part iii, section 2 (my emphasis): We readily suppose an object may continue individually the same, though several...

14:51 And there followed him [Jesus] a certain young man (νεανίσκος) , having a linen cloth (σινδόνα) cast about his naked body; and the ...

Successful reference: You must not only hit something; you must hit the right thing. And what makes a thing the right thing is the intenti...

In medieval logic 'Antichrist' was a proper name frequently used as an example of reference to an individual who does not exist now,...

And here is another interesting paper by Greg Frost-Arnold, “ Too much reference ”. He considers the case in some way opposite to empty sin...

In an earlier post  I looked approvingly at Tim Crane's views on singularity, and promised to follow up with some things I don't lik...

One of the assumptions in the substitution problem was the indiscernibility of identicals: Fa and a=b implies Fb Is this always true? A sl...

Vallicella alludes here to a distinction originally made by Gareth Evans between ‘Russellian’ and ‘Fregean’ understanding of propositions. ...

In his gloss on Porphyry ( Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge, edited by Bernhard Geyer in Beitraege zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theol...

Later on, I shall be arguing that empty names individuate just as well as non-empty ones, and that since individuation is the primary semant...

Boethius' treatise on the Trinity is one of the two key places for the medieval discussion of individuation and numerical identity (the ...

Some sizeable and magnificient additions to the Logic Museum today. A new page on Individuation. It includes a brief history of the questi...

The difficulty raised by Paasch is as follows. If haecceity involves a form of relation to an individual, the haecceity cannot be prior to t...

Before I attempt an answer to Paasch's question there is a preliminary notion that needs to be clarified, as it is crucial to Scotus...

I've read through four of Paasch's five posts. Some comments. In Scotus: haecceities must be some positive entity he introduces Sco...

Here is a splendid passage from the 14C logician John Buridan. The Latin you can find on Peter King's website, here , of which my hasty ...