14 ideas
| 4483 | If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux] |
| 4477 | Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux] |
| 4481 | Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux] |
| 10197 | An immanent universal is wholly present in more than one place [Zimmerman,DW] |
| 4482 | Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux] |
| 4478 | Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux] |
| 4480 | Times and places are identified by objects, so cannot be used in a theory of object-identity [Loux] |
| 10198 | If only two indiscernible electrons exist, future differences must still be possible [Zimmerman,DW] |
| 10199 | Discernible differences at different times may just be in counterparts [Zimmerman,DW] |
| 14610 | Neither 'moving spotlight' nor 'growing block' views explain why we care what is present or past [Zimmerman,DW] |
| 22974 | Presentists lack the materials for a realist view of change [Price,H] |
| 22973 | The present moment, time's direction, and time's dynamic quality seem to be objective facts [Price,H] |
| 14608 | A-theorists, unlike B-theorists, believe some sort of objective distinction between past, present and future [Zimmerman,DW] |
| 22975 | We must explain either the existence of a time direction, or our psychological sense of it [Price,H] |