10 ideas
9406 | A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it [Quinton] |
10242 | I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine] |
10243 | My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [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] |
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
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] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |