Combining Texts
Ideas for
'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Word and Object' and 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
9 ideas
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
8464
|
Physical objects in space-time are just events or processes, no matter how disconnected [Quine]
|
7924
|
The notion of a physical object is by far the most useful one for science [Quine]
|
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
13918
|
Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
13921
|
All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences
13922
|
Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
8482
|
Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]
|
12136
|
Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]
|
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity
17594
|
We can paraphrase 'x=y' as a sequence of the form 'if Fx then Fy' [Quine]
|
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity
13920
|
Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe]
|