Beyond Necessity

As noted in an earlier post, Phillips says here that the sense of 'a priori' as used by scholastic writers differs from the modern ...

An addition to the section on the Ontological argument in the Logic Musum. Two chapters from Phillips on that subject. Generally good valu...

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...

1. A new page on the Ars Vetus , or 'old logic' of the scholastics. This includes three of the seven works of the old logic, with t...

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...

Here . Now with its own URL (.com no less). This is the first time I have ever paid to have a site hosted. Most of the original material...

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...

I put J.T. Paasch (Blog: Boring Things - "nothing but fun") on my visiting list some time ago. But then it was not updated for so...

A Straw Man argument is where your opponent takes you to be arguing for some B instead of A, proceeds to demolish B, and serves not-B up to ...

One of the comments at the discussion raging at Vallicella's site illustrates perfectly the 'translation problem' that I mentio...

It is time to re-tell the famous story of Tibbles. Tibbles is a cat, who has just lost a tiny piece of hair Let T be all the parts of Tibb...

A guest post from Tom McKay, who writes: Concerning plurals, there is no problem about expressing the things you mention within the system f...

An argument mentioned by Bill Vallicella here neatly illustrates the danger of using modern predicate calculus to penetrate the logic of na...

In an earlier post I suggested that the semantics of a noun or referring phrase does not include time. The sense of time is what a verb bri...

"Bad mathematics is merely boring, whereas bad philosophy is nonsense" - found here .

There is a deeper puzzle about eliminativism. (E) There are no A's. There are only B's. (R) There are A's but A's are only B...

Does a reductivist or 'identity' theory have to be eliminativist? Perhaps not. The theory could simply be asserting an identity. Tak...

Following some severe strictures by Brightly on my earlier posts I offer reformulations of the 'aporetic set' of propositions, as fo...