13 ideas
18859 | Metaphysics is a quest for truthmakers [Tallant] |
18861 | Maybe number statements can be paraphrased into quantifications plus identities [Tallant] |
18866 | Maybe only 'positive' truths need truth-makers [Tallant] |
18860 | A truthmaker is the minimal portion of reality that will do the job [Tallant] |
18863 | What is the truthmaker for a possible new power? [Tallant] |
16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
18864 | The wisdom of Plato and of Socrates are not the same property [Tallant] |
13128 | 'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins] |
18865 | Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing [Tallant] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
18862 | Are propositions all the thoughts and sentences that are possible? [Tallant] |