8 ideas
5438 | Hermeneutics of tradition is sympathetic, hermeneutics of suspicion is hostile [Ricoeur, by Mautner] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
10558 | Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta] |
10557 | Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |