12 ideas
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
9406 | A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it [Quinton] |
9497 | Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong] |
15730 | Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention [Quinton] |
15550 | Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
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] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |