Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Pindar, Eubulides and Cover,J/O'Leary-Hawthorne,J

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16 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 1. Paradox

6007	If you know your father, but don't recognise your father veiled, you know and don't know the same person [Eubulides, by Dancy,R]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox

6006	If you say truly that you are lying, you are lying [Eubulides, by Dancy,R]

5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')

6008	Removing one grain doesn't destroy a heap, so a heap can't be destroyed [Eubulides, by Dancy,R]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

13076

Scholastics treat relations as two separate predicates of the relata [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

13102

If you individuate things by their origin, you still have to individuate the origins themselves [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

13103

Numerical difference is a symmetrical notion, unlike proper individuation [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

13104

Haecceity as property, or as colourless thisness, or as singleton set [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance

13100

Maybe 'substance' is more of a mass-noun than a count-noun [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

13068

We can ask for the nature of substance, about type of substance, and about individual substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

13069

The general assumption is that substances cannot possibly be non-substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

13072

Modern essences are sets of essential predicate-functions [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

17080

Modern essentialists express essence as functions from worlds to extensions for predicates [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential

13101

Necessity-of-origin won't distinguish ex nihilo creations, or things sharing an origin [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

13081

Even extreme modal realists might allow transworld identity for abstract objects [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / c. Explanations by coherence

13071

We can go beyond mere causal explanations if we believe in an 'order of being' [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]