23 ideas
13917 | Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe] |
13919 | Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe] |
16665 | There are entities, and then positive 'modes', modifying aspects outside the thing's essence [Suárez] |
16666 | A mode determines the state and character of a quantity, without adding to it [Suárez] |
16667 | Substances are incomplete unless they have modes [Suárez, by Pasnau] |
13918 | Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe] |
17007 | Forms must rule over faculties and accidents, and are the source of action and unity [Suárez] |
16780 | Partial forms of leaf and fruit are united in the whole form of the tree [Suárez] |
16758 | The best support for substantial forms is the co-ordinated unity of a natural being [Suárez] |
16743 | We can get at the essential nature of 'quantity' by knowing bulk and extension [Suárez] |
13921 | All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe] |
16742 | We only know essences through non-essential features, esp. those closest to the essence [Suárez] |
13922 | Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe] |
22143 | Identity does not exclude possible or imagined difference [Suárez, by Boulter] |
22144 | Real Essential distinction: A and B are of different natural kinds [Suárez, by Boulter] |
22146 | Minor Real distinction: B needs A, but A doesn't need B [Suárez, by Boulter] |
22145 | Major Real distinction: A and B have independent existences [Suárez, by Boulter] |
22147 | Conceptual/Mental distinction: one thing can be conceived of in two different ways [Suárez, by Boulter] |
22148 | Modal distinction: A isn't B or its property, but still needs B [Suárez, by Boulter] |
13920 | Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe] |
22149 | Scholastics assess possibility by what has actually happened in reality [Suárez, by Boulter] |
20948 | Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie] |
16682 | Other things could occupy the same location as an angel [Suárez] |