13 ideas
10735 | Abstraction from objects won't reveal an operation's being performed 'so many times' [Geach] |
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] |
10732 | If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible [Geach] |
3631 | A blind man may still contain the idea of colour [Descartes] |
10731 | For abstractionists, concepts are capacities to recognise recurrent features of the world [Geach] |
10733 | The abstractionist cannot explain 'some' and 'not' [Geach] |
10734 | Only a judgement can distinguish 'striking' from 'being struck' [Geach] |
3639 | Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes] |
3640 | Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes] |