9 ideas
21342 | A relation is internal if two things possessing the relation could not fail to be related [Moore,GE, by Heil] |
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |