13 ideas
11970 | Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan] |
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
11969 | Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan] |
11971 | The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan] |
11972 | Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan] |
11973 | Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
8130 | Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge] |
11967 | Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |