20 ideas
18859 | Metaphysics is a quest for truthmakers [Tallant] |
21901 | 'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May] |
18861 | Maybe number statements can be paraphrased into quantifications plus identities [Tallant] |
15842 | An ad hominem refutation is reasonable, if it uses the opponent's assumptions [Harte,V] |
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] |
15841 | Mereology began as a nominalist revolt against the commitments of set theory [Harte,V] |
21908 | Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze] |
21902 | 'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze] |
21903 | Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May] |
21904 | Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May] |
15858 | Traditionally, the four elements are just what persists through change [Harte,V] |
18864 | The wisdom of Plato and of Socrates are not the same property [Tallant] |
18865 | Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing [Tallant] |
15848 | Mereology treats constitution as a criterion of identity, as shown in the axiom of extensionality [Harte,V] |
15837 | What exactly is a 'sum', and what exactly is 'composition'? [Harte,V] |
15839 | If something is 'more than' the sum of its parts, is the extra thing another part, or not? [Harte,V] |
15838 | The problem with the term 'sum' is that it is singular [Harte,V] |
18862 | Are propositions all the thoughts and sentences that are possible? [Tallant] |