11 ideas
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
7720 | Two things can only resemble one another in some respect, and that may reintroduce a universal [Lowe] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
7712 | On substances, Leibniz emphasises unity, Spinoza independence, Locke relations to qualities [Lowe] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
7710 | Perception is a mode of belief-acquisition, and does not involve sensation [Lowe] |
7711 | Science requires a causal theory - perception of an object must be an experience caused by the object [Lowe] |
7714 | Personal identity is a problem across time (diachronic) and at an instant (synchronic) [Lowe] |
7715 | Mentalese isn't a language, because it isn't conventional, or a means of public communication [Lowe] |
7722 | If meaning is mental pictures, explain "the cat (or dog!) is NOT on the mat" [Lowe] |
16714 | The state should kill blasphemous heretics [Erasmus] |