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I say "the reason for modal realism". You say every premise above is okay, and you accept modal realism.

We can think about the way things could have been. Anything thinkable can exist. Possible worlds (= the ways things could have been) are thinkable. Th...

Your attack on Lewisian modal realism has no specific content. You're just saying it is useless. You're just saying it is insignificant. I don't think...

Many philosophers think that modal realism significantly contributes to metaphysics.

Very few philosophers accept modal realism, not because it is useless, but because it is extreme. Many philosophers endorse that modal realism contrib...

Your information about Lewis is 100% incorrect. What are you attacking? Even Wikipedia entry is better than you.

I think it's enough that you never read Lewis really. You proved that you don't understand Lewis. Lewis is the philosopher who can say about you: The ...

However, Descartes is smarter than you.

What you criticize Lewis are all that Lewisian philosophers respond like "what the fuck is that guy talking about?"

Your interpretation of Lewis is not standard. Maybe you don't understand Lewis.

'Everything is possible' means 'everything has its counterparts'. Have you ever read his counterpart theory? I think that your accusation is not justi...

Susan Haack and Ruth Barcan Marcus are unfortunate omissions...

David Lewis is famous for several things in metaphysics: counterfactual theory of causation, Humean supervenience, possible world realism, reformed an...

I voted for Gillian Russell, but Anscombe would be a rational choice, too.

I don't know much about Rebecca Goldstein... But there are some omissions: Sarah McGrath, Marianne Talbot, and so forth.

Although Whitehead was famous, many people don't remember him as a metaphysician...

I actually forgot Putnam at that time... Putnam is an obvious omission, unfortunately... I voted for David Lewis, anyway.

Ah, it should be 'Nietzsche'!

Thanks for useful information.

'Nietzche' should be 'Nietsche'. It's a mistake. (I voted for Kant.)

Anselm and Kierkegaard are omissions. This site does not allow to edit the options in the poll. I was surprised that Kant is ahead of Aquinas in philo...

Conservatists want to make people stupid. Religions tend to make people stupid. This is why conservatists use religions.

Fodor's claim is understood as which Mentalese is prior to natural languages. English sentences have no meaning, but Mentalese gives meaning to them.

You can find Fodor's claim in 'LOT 2: The Language of Thought Revisited'. It's page 73.

Indirect realists say that what we perceive are sense-data of objects. Direct realists say that what we perceive are real objects themselves. This fol...

Davidson said that Humean impressions are not epistemological contents. This follows that perceptual contents need linguistic contents to be epistemol...

Rigid designators are about the criticism of the theory of descriptions. "Aristotle is the author of Metaphysics" is contingent. Aristotle could not h...

The logical form of "all dogs are animals" would be as follows: For every x, if Fx, then Gx The truth condition of "all dogs are animals" would be: Fo...

Logical forms are merely strings of symbols. Truth conditions are what we are implying a meaning. I understand.

I was reading Delia Graff Fara's 'Descriptions as Predicates'. She distinguishes logical forms from truth conditions. What she said as truth condition...

The truth condition of "all dogs are animals" would be as follows: "All dogs are animals" is true if and only if for every x, if x is a dog, then x is...