12 ideas
10397 | Abelard's mereology involves privileged and natural divisions, and principal parts [Abelard, by King,P] |
19400 | Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz] |
19401 | God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz] |
10396 | If 'animal' is wholly present in Socrates and an ass, then 'animal' is rational and irrational [Abelard, by King,P] |
10395 | Abelard was an irrealist about virtually everything apart from concrete individuals [Abelard, by King,P] |
15384 | Only words can be 'predicated of many'; the universality is just in its mode of signifying [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
8481 | The de dicto-de re modality distinction dates back to Abelard [Abelard, by Orenstein] |
19402 | The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz] |
15385 | Abelard's problem is the purely singular aspects of things won't account for abstraction [Panaccio on Abelard] |
14080 | Are causal descriptions part of the causal theory of reference, or are they just metasemantic? [Kaplan, by Schaffer,J] |
15383 | Nothing external can truly be predicated of an object [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
10398 | Natural kinds are not special; they are just well-defined resemblance collections [Abelard, by King,P] |