7 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] |
9100 | Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham] |
9101 | Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham] |
8119 | Art aims only at beauty, of form, of idea, and (above all) of expression [Winckelmann, by Tolstoy] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |