10 ideas
9390 | Logic guides thinking, but it isn't a substitute for it [Rumfitt] |
23651 | Universals are not objects of sense and cannot be imagined - but can be conceived [Reid] |
23650 | Only individuals exist [Reid] |
23649 | No one thinks two sheets possess a single whiteness, but all agree they are both white [Reid] |
16980 | We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P] |
9389 | Vague membership of sets is possible if the set is defined by its concept, not its members [Rumfitt] |
16979 | It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P] |
11874 | Real identity admits of no degrees [Reid] |
23652 | We must first conceive things before we can consider them [Reid] |
23648 | First we notice and name attributes ('abstracting'); then we notice that subjects share them ('generalising') [Reid] |