Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'On the Principles of Indiscernibles', 'Intro to 'Rationality in Greek Thought'' and 'There Are No Abstract Objects'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
23249 The early philosophers thought that reason has its own needs and desires [Frede,M]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
14596 Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
14597 Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity
14598 Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
2116 The concept of an existing thing must contain more than the concept of a non-existing thing [Leibniz]