10 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
15395 | Give up objects necessitating truths, and say their natures cause the truths? [Cameron] |
15394 | Truthmaker requires a commitment to tropes or states of affairs, for contingent truths [Cameron] |
15401 | Essentialists say intrinsic properties arise from what the thing is, irrespective of surroundings [Cameron] |
15393 | An object's intrinsic properties are had in virtue of how it is, independently [Cameron] |
17945 | Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas] |
17946 | Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas] |
15396 | Most criteria for identity over time seem to leave two later objects identical to the earlier one [Cameron] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |