13 ideas
| 22626 | Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher] |
| 16235 | Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Burke,M, by Hawley] |
| 14753 | The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Burke,M, by Sider] |
| 16072 | 'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Burke,M, by Wasserman] |
| 14751 | Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Burke,M, by Sider] |
| 16071 | Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Burke,M, by Wasserman] |
| 16234 | Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Burke,M, by Hawley] |
| 13278 | Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Burke,M, by Koslicki] |
| 14750 | Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Burke,M, by Sider] |
| 10650 | In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher] |
| 1868 | The world was made as much for animals as for man [Celsus] |
| 20365 | We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher] |
| 1867 | Christians presented Jesus as a new kind of logos to oppose that of the philosophers [Celsus] |