8 ideas
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] |
10558 | Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta] |
15455 | Total intrinsic properties give us what a thing is [Lewis] |
10557 | Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta] |
21236 | Instead of gravitational force, we now have a pervasive gravitational field [Farmelo] |
21235 | The Schrödinger waves are just the maths of transforming energy values to positions [Farmelo] |
21234 | Experiments show that fundamental particles of one type are identical [Farmelo] |