Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Ryan Wasserman, Frances A. Yates and Walter Burley

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these philosophers

---

10 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object

16065

Constitution is identity (being in the same place), or it isn't (having different possibilities) [Wasserman]

16067

Constitution is not identity, because it is an asymmetric dependence relation [Wasserman]

16069

There are three main objections to seeing constitution as different from identity [Wasserman]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

16068

The weight of a wall is not the weight of its parts, since that would involve double-counting [Wasserman]

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

16698

Days exist, and yet they seem to be made up of parts which don't exist [Burley]

16690

Unlike permanent things, successive things cannot exist all at once [Burley]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

16074

Relative identity may reject transitivity, but that suggests that it isn't about 'identity' [Wasserman]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities

16719

The primary qualities are mixed to cause secondary qualities [Burley]