8 ideas
12741 | If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived [Leibniz] |
12740 | The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction [Leibniz] |
10467 | Individuals consist of 'compresent' tropes [Bacon,John] |
10464 | A trope is a bit of a property or relation (not an exemplification or a quality) [Bacon,John] |
10465 | Trope theory is ontologically parsimonious, with possibly only one-category [Bacon,John] |
10466 | Maybe possible worlds are just sets of possible tropes [Bacon,John] |
12721 | Light, heat and colour are apparent qualities, and so are motion, figure and extension [Leibniz] |
8066 | Butler exalts conscience, but it may be horribly misleading [Anscombe on Butler] |