8 ideas
10180 | Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects [Poincaré] |
16664 | Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony] |
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
16703 | God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony] |
16699 | Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |