Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for David Fair, Albert of Saxony and Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

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Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

12887

A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16703

God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony]

16699

Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements

16570

Elements are found last in dismantling bodies, and first in generating them [Albert of Saxony]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8326	Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum [Fair, by Sosa/Tooley]

10379

Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow [Fair, by Schaffer,J]