15 ideas
9208 | Philosophers with a new concept are like children with a new toy [Fine,K] |
9210 | Possible objects are abstract; actual concrete objects are possible; so abstract/concrete are compatible [Fine,K] |
9211 | A non-standard realism, with no privileged standpoint, might challenge its absoluteness or coherence [Fine,K] |
9295 | Not only substances have attributes; events, actions, states and qualities can have them [Teichmann] |
9202 | Objects, as well as sentences, can have logical form [Fine,K] |
9206 | We must distinguish between the identity or essence of an object, and its necessary features [Fine,K] |
9205 | The three basic types of necessity are metaphysical, natural and normative [Fine,K] |
9209 | Metaphysical necessity may be 'whatever the circumstance', or 'regardless of circumstances' [Fine,K] |
9200 | Empiricists suspect modal notions: either it happens or it doesn't; it is just regularities. [Fine,K] |
9293 | Body-spirit interaction ought to result in losses and increases of energy in the material world [Teichmann] |
2596 | Maybe mind and body are parallel, like two good clocks [Leibniz] |
9207 | If sentence content is all worlds where it is true, all necessary truths have the same content! [Fine,K] |
2595 | If the universe is a perfect agreement of uncommunicating substances, there must be a common source [Leibniz] |
9292 | The Soul has no particular capacity (in the way thinking belongs to the mind) [Teichmann] |
9294 | No individuating marks distinguish between Souls [Teichmann] |