16 ideas
14001 | People who use science to make philosophical points don't realise how philosophical science is [Markosian] |
13991 | Presentism has the problem that if Socrates ceases to exist, so do propositions about him [Markosian] |
21846 | Bergson was a rallying point, because he emphasised becomings and multiplicities [Bergson, by Deleuze] |
14002 | Possible worlds must be abstract, because two qualitatively identical worlds are just one world [Markosian] |
21854 | Bergson showed that memory is not after the event, but coexists with it [Bergson, by Deleuze] |
15710 | Bohr explained the periodic table and chemical properties of elements, using the quantum atom [Kumar] |
14000 | 'Grabby' truth conditions first select their object, unlike 'searchy' truth conditions [Markosian] |
13990 | Presentism is the view that only present objects exist [Markosian] |
13992 | Presentism says if objects don't exist now, we can't have attitudes to them or relations with them [Markosian] |
13994 | Presentism seems to entail that we cannot talk about other times [Markosian] |
13995 | Serious Presentism says things must exist to have relations and properties; Unrestricted version denies this [Markosian] |
13996 | Maybe Presentists can refer to the haecceity of a thing, after the thing itself disappears [Markosian] |
13997 | Maybe Presentists can paraphrase singular propositions about the past [Markosian] |
13993 | Special Relativity denies the absolute present which Presentism needs [Markosian] |
13998 | Objects in the past, like Socrates, are more like imaginary objects than like remote spatial objects [Markosian] |
13999 | People are mistaken when they think 'Socrates was a philosopher' says something [Markosian] |