12 ideas
8784 | Neo-logicism founds arithmetic on Hume's Principle along with second-order logic [Hale/Wright] |
8787 | The Julius Caesar problem asks for a criterion for the concept of a 'number' [Hale/Wright] |
8788 | Logicism is only noteworthy if logic has a privileged position in our ontology and epistemology [Hale/Wright] |
8783 | Logicism might also be revived with a quantificational approach, or an abstraction-free approach [Hale/Wright] |
18528 | The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol] |
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] |
8786 | One first-order abstraction principle is Frege's definition of 'direction' in terms of parallel lines [Hale/Wright] |
16589 | Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |
16651 | God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol] |