15 ideas
7719 | European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead] |
10656 | With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi] |
16014 | It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one [Noonan] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
15389 | In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons] |
16024 | I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan] |
16023 | Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan] |
16015 | Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan] |
16017 | Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan] |
16016 | Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan] |
16020 | Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan] |
16018 | Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan] |
16019 | Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan] |
15247 | Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden] |
16962 | Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine] |