30 ideas
| 10369 | How fine-grained Kim's events are depends on how finely properties are individuated [Kim, by Schaffer,J] |
| 8976 | If events are ordered triples of items, such things seem to be sets, and hence abstract [Simons on Kim] |
| 8975 | Events cannot be merely ordered triples, but must specify the link between the elements [Kim, by Simons] |
| 8974 | Events are composed of an object with an attribute at a time [Kim, by Simons] |
| 8977 | Since properties like self-identity and being 2+2=4 are timeless, Kim must restrict his properties [Simons on Kim] |
| 8980 | Kim's theory results in too many events [Simons on Kim] |
| 12608 | Concepts are distinguished by roles in judgement, and are thus tied to rationality [Peacocke] |
| 12605 | A sense is individuated by the conditions for reference [Peacocke] |
| 12607 | Fregean concepts have their essence fixed by reference-conditions [Peacocke] |
| 12609 | Concepts have distinctive reasons and norms [Peacocke] |
| 12604 | Any explanation of a concept must involve reference and truth [Peacocke] |
| 12610 | Encountering novel sentences shows conclusively that meaning must be compositional [Peacocke] |
| 23928 | Good art produces exaltation and detachment [Bell,C] |
| 23922 | The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions [Bell,C] |
| 23921 | Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art [Bell,C] |
| 23929 | We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value [Bell,C] |
| 23923 | Visual form can create a sublime mental state [Bell,C] |
| 23932 | Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality [Bell,C] |
| 23927 | Aestheticism invites artist to create beauty, but with no indication of how to do it [Bell,C] |
| 8115 | Only artists can discern significant form; other people must look to art to find it [Bell,C, by Gardner] |
| 23924 | Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality [Bell,C] |
| 23931 | Significant form is the essence of art, which I believe expresses an emotion about reality [Bell,C] |
| 20434 | 'Form' is visual relations, and it is 'significant' if it moves us aesthetically; art needs both [Bell,C, by Feagin] |
| 23934 | The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form [Bell,C] |
| 23925 | Mere copies of pictures are not significant - unless the copies are very exact [Bell,C] |
| 23926 | Art is distinguished by its aesthetic emotion, which produces appropriate form [Bell,C] |
| 23933 | Aesthetic contemplation is the best and most intense mental state [Bell,C] |
| 23935 | Aesthetic experience is an exaltation which increases the possibilities of life [Bell,C] |
| 22691 | Only artistic qualities matter in art, because they also have the highest moral value [Bell,C] |
| 23930 | Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest [Bell,C] |