12 ideas
14231 | We should always apply someone's theory of meaning to their own utterances [Liggins] |
9406 | A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it [Quinton] |
14232 | We normally formalise 'There are Fs' with singular quantification and predication, but this may be wrong [Liggins] |
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] |
14233 | Nihilists needn't deny parts - they can just say that some of the xs are among the ys [Liggins] |
17527 | Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird] |
17528 | The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird] |
17526 | The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird] |