Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Intentionality/Geach: three-digit relation: person-verb-object.
E.g. For a z, z is a man and I saw z in Oxford under the aspect: "ran past".
GeachVsBuridan: "ratio", "appeals to", "regard": here there are no identity conditions.
>Identity conditions.
There is no need for the subject to be perceived under this aspect.
>Aspects.
E.g. Buridan: Socrates knows that some stars are above the horizon."
Geach: Suppose, Socrates is in the jungle, from which does he know?
Buridan: "of those who are it".
GeachVs: only of "some", not e.g. from the constellation Aries (false aspect).
Incorrect complex expression: "Socrates, knows that Aries is over ..."
GeachVsBuridan: Buridan exploits here the peculiarity of "know" (from knowledge follows truth).
>Knowledge, >Truth, >Knowledge paradoxes.
I 137
Intentional Identity/Intentionality/Geach: E.g.
1. "There is a poet whom Smith and Brown admire" - or
2. "Smith and Brown admire both the same poet"
The latter would also be true if it was a high-stacker.
"Under the description"/Aspect: Problem: E.g. Smith dreamed of the world's fattest woman, who is actually red-haired, but in the dream she was bald.
The medieval problems are still not solved today.
de dicto, >de re, >Proposition, >Intensional objects, >Objects of thought, >Objects of belief, >Mental objects, >Medieval philosophy.