11 ideas
16643 | Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura] |
8508 | A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC] |
8509 | A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC] |
8510 | 'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC] |
15148 | Powers give explanations, without being necessary for some class membership [Chakravartty] |
15145 | A kind essence is the necessary and sufficient properties for membership of a class [Chakravartty] |
15147 | Cluster kinds are explained simply by sharing some properties, not by an 'essence' [Chakravartty] |
16696 | Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura] |
15144 | Explanation of causal phenomena concerns essential kinds - but also lack of them [Chakravartty] |
15146 | Some kinds, such as electrons, have essences, but 'cluster kinds' do not [Chakravartty] |
15151 | Many causal laws do not refer to kinds, but only to properties [Chakravartty] |