11 ideas
15842 | An ad hominem refutation is reasonable, if it uses the opponent's assumptions [Harte,V] |
15841 | Mereology began as a nominalist revolt against the commitments of set theory [Harte,V] |
15858 | Traditionally, the four elements are just what persists through change [Harte,V] |
22626 | Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher] |
15848 | Mereology treats constitution as a criterion of identity, as shown in the axiom of extensionality [Harte,V] |
10650 | In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher] |
15837 | What exactly is a 'sum', and what exactly is 'composition'? [Harte,V] |
15839 | If something is 'more than' the sum of its parts, is the extra thing another part, or not? [Harte,V] |
15838 | The problem with the term 'sum' is that it is singular [Harte,V] |
2975 | That honey is sweet I do not affirm, but I agree that it appears so [Timon] |
20365 | We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher] |