6 ideas
9217 | Modern empirical metaphysics focuses on ontological commitments of discourse, or on presuppositions [Loux/Zimmerman] |
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] |
12251 | Substantial forms are not understood, and explain nothing [Descartes] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
16772 | An angelic mind would not experience pain, even when connected to a human body [Descartes, by Pasnau] |