9 ideas
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
4483 | If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux] |
4481 | Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux] |
4477 | Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux] |
4482 | Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux] |
4478 | Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux] |
4480 | Times and places are identified by objects, so cannot be used in a theory of object-identity [Loux] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |