22 ideas
11197 | The definitions expressing identity are used to sort things [Aquinas] |
13070 | If definitions must be general, and general terms can't individuate, then Socrates can't be defined [Aquinas, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
11195 | If affirmative propositions express being, we affirm about what is absent [Aquinas] |
20752 | For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett] |
11201 | Properties have an incomplete essence, with definitions referring to their subject [Aquinas] |
11205 | If the form of 'human' contains 'many', Socrates isn't human; if it contains 'one', Socrates is Plato [Aquinas] |
13090 | The principle of diversity for corporeal substances is their matter [Aquinas, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
11202 | It is by having essence that things exist [Aquinas] |
11203 | Specific individual essence is defined by material, and generic essence is defined by form [Aquinas] |
11200 | The definition of a physical object must include the material as well as the form [Aquinas] |
11196 | Essence is something in common between the natures which sort things into categories [Aquinas] |
11208 | A simple substance is its own essence [Aquinas] |
22868 | The value and truth of knowledge are measured by success in activity [Dewey] |
11198 | Definition of essence makes things understandable [Aquinas] |
22865 | Habits constitute the self [Dewey] |
11206 | The mind constructs complete attributions, based on the unified elements of the real world [Aquinas] |
20756 | Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett] |
22871 | The good people are those who improve; the bad are those who deteriorate [Dewey] |
22876 | Democracy is the development of human nature when it shares in the running of communal activities [Dewey] |
22875 | Democracy is not just a form of government; it is a mode of shared living [Dewey] |
22874 | Individuality is only developed within groups [Dewey] |
11207 | A cause can exist without its effect, but the effect cannot exist without its cause [Aquinas] |