8 ideas
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
21386 | We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
14051 | A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
1828 | God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus] |