20 ideas
13134 | We negate predicates but do not negate names [Westerhoff] |
13124 | Categories can be ordered by both containment and generality [Westerhoff] |
13117 | How far down before we are too specialised to have a category? [Westerhoff] |
13116 | Maybe objects in the same category have the same criteria of identity [Westerhoff] |
13118 | Categories are base-sets which are used to construct states of affairs [Westerhoff] |
13125 | Categories are held to explain why some substitutions give falsehood, and others meaninglessness [Westerhoff] |
13126 | Categories systematize our intuitions about generality, substitutability, and identity [Westerhoff] |
13130 | Categories as generalities don't give a criterion for a low-level cut-off point [Westerhoff] |
13131 | The aim is that everything should belong in some ontological category or other [Westerhoff] |
13123 | All systems have properties and relations, and most have individuals, abstracta, sets and events [Westerhoff] |
13115 | Ontological categories are like formal axioms, not unique and with necessary membership [Westerhoff] |
13119 | Categories merely systematise, and are not intrinsic to objects [Westerhoff] |
13135 | A thing's ontological category depends on what else exists, so it is contingent [Westerhoff] |
13129 | Essential kinds may be too specific to provide ontological categories [Westerhoff] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
22594 | In 1794 France all individual and legal rights were suppressed by the general will [Dunt] |
22602 | Over several centuries a set of eight main liberal values was established [Dunt] |
22596 | No government, or the whole nation, can control an individual beyond legitimate scope [Dunt] |
22603 | Laissez-faire liberalism failed to give people the protections and freedoms needed for a good life [Dunt] |
22592 | Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt] |