Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Extrinsic Properties', 'fragments/reports' and 'Paradoxes of the Infinite'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

7 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

21336

Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

1767	Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Crates of Thebes, by Diog. Laertius]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9987	An aggregate in which order does not matter I call a 'set' [Bolzano]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

10856

A truly infinite quantity does not need to be a variable [Bolzano]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 4. Intrinsic Properties

14979

Being alone doesn't guarantee intrinsic properties; 'being alone' is itself extrinsic [Lewis, by Sider]

15454

Extrinsic properties come in degrees, with 'brother' less extrinsic than 'sibling' [Lewis]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties

15455

Total intrinsic properties give us what a thing is [Lewis]