9 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
9616 | A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor] |
15896 | Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |