11 ideas
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
12709 | Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |