11 ideas
20771 | Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
12354 | A 'categorial' property is had by virtue of being or having an item from a category [Wedin] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
12358 | Substance is a principle and a kind of cause [Wedin] |
12346 | Form explains why some matter is of a certain kind, and that is explanatory bedrock [Wedin] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
20831 | The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |