15 ideas
| 21339 | We want the ontology of relations, not just a formal way of specifying them [Heil] |
| 21349 | Two people are indirectly related by height; the direct relation is internal, between properties [Heil] |
| 21340 | Maybe all the other features of the world can be reduced to relations [Heil] |
| 21348 | In the case of 5 and 6, their relational truthmaker is just the numbers [Heil] |
| 21351 | Truthmaking is a clear example of an internal relation [Heil] |
| 21344 | If R internally relates a and b, and you have a and b, you thereby have R [Heil] |
| 21350 | If properties are powers, then causal relations are internal relations [Heil] |
| 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] |
| 3626 | Knowing the attributes is enough to reveal a substance [Descartes] |
| 17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
| 3630 | Our thinking about external things doesn't disprove the existence of innate ideas [Descartes] |
| 3631 | A blind man may still contain the idea of colour [Descartes] |
| 3640 | Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes] |
| 3639 | Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes] |