24 ideas
18529 | Relations are expressed either as absolute facts, or by a relational concept [William of Ockham] |
15435 | If you think universals are immanent, you must believe them to be sparse, and not every related predicate [Lewis] |
15451 | I assume there could be natural properties that are not instantiated in our world [Lewis] |
15433 | Tropes are particular properties, which cannot recur, but can be exact duplicates [Lewis] |
15436 | Universals are meant to give an account of resemblance [Lewis] |
15438 | We can add a primitive natural/unnatural distinction to class nominalism [Lewis] |
16779 | Cut wood doesn't make a new substance, but seems to make separate subjects [William of Ockham] |
15448 | The 'magical' view of structural universals says they are atoms, even though they have parts [Lewis] |
15449 | If 'methane' is an atomic structural universal, it has nothing to connect it to its carbon universals [Lewis] |
15439 | The 'pictorial' view of structural universals says they are wholes made of universals as parts [Lewis] |
15441 | The structural universal 'methane' needs the universal 'hydrogen' four times over [Lewis] |
15445 | Butane and Isobutane have the same atoms, but different structures [Lewis] |
15434 | Structural universals have a necessary connection to the universals forming its parts [Lewis] |
15437 | We can't get rid of structural universals if there are no simple universals [Lewis] |
16757 | Hot water naturally cools down, which is due to the substantial form of the water [William of Ockham] |
15446 | Composition is not just making new things from old; there are too many counterexamples [Lewis] |
15440 | A whole is distinct from its parts, but is not a further addition in ontology [Lewis] |
15444 | Different things (a toy house and toy car) can be made of the same parts at different times [Lewis] |
6587 | It is always wrong to believe things on insufficient evidence [Clifford] |
9102 | If an animal approached from a distance, we might abstract 'animal' from one instance [William of Ockham] |
15450 | Maybe abstraction is just mereological subtraction [Lewis] |
9114 | There are no secure foundations to prove the separate existence of mind, in reason or experience [William of Ockham] |
15443 | Mathematicians abstract by equivalence classes, but that doesn't turn a many into one [Lewis] |
9115 | To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved [William of Ockham] |