9 ideas
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] |
20945 | Belief is no more rational than is tasting and smelling [Hamann] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |
21731 | Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott] |
21730 | A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott] |
21732 | The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott] |
7666 | God is not a mathematician, but a poet [Hamann, by Berlin] |