Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Xenocrates, Anaximenes and Crawford L. Elder

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

13795

Properties only have identity in the context of their contraries [Elder]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

13798

Maybe we should give up the statue [Elder]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

13797

The loss of an essential property means the end of an existence [Elder]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

13794

Essential properties by nature occur in clusters or packages [Elder]

13796

Essential properties are bound together, and would be lost together [Elder]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5880	Xenocrates held that the soul had no form or substance, but was number [Xenocrates, by Cicero]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1497	For Anaximenes nature is air, which takes different forms by rarefaction and condensation [Anaximenes, by Simplicius]