15 ideas
9108 | From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham] |
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
9107 | A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing [William of Ockham] |
16300 | Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [William of Ockham, by Halbach] |
9106 | The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men [William of Ockham] |
10529 | If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K] |
10530 | Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K] |
9113 | Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things [William of Ockham] |
9110 | The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb [William of Ockham] |
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
15388 | Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify [William of Ockham] |
9109 | If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible [William of Ockham] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |
9105 | Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language [William of Ockham] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |