9 ideas
9406 | A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it [Quinton] |
10800 | The values of variables can't determine existence, because they are just expressions [Ryle, by Quine] |
15730 | Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention [Quinton] |
15728 | The naturalness of a class depends as much on the observers as on the objects [Quinton] |
9407 | Properties imply natural classes which can be picked out by everybody [Quinton] |
15729 | Uninstantiated properties must be defined using the instantiated ones [Quinton] |
8520 | An individual is a union of a group of qualities and a position [Quinton, by Campbell,K] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |