25 ideas
18859 | Metaphysics is a quest for truthmakers [Tallant] |
14600 | Analysis aims at secure necessary and sufficient conditions [Schaffer,J] |
18861 | Maybe number statements can be paraphrased into quantifications plus identities [Tallant] |
14603 | 'Reification' occurs if we mistake a concept for a thing [Schaffer,J] |
18866 | Maybe only 'positive' truths need truth-makers [Tallant] |
18860 | A truthmaker is the minimal portion of reality that will do the job [Tallant] |
18863 | What is the truthmaker for a possible new power? [Tallant] |
14607 | T adds □p→p for reflexivity, and is ideal for modeling lawhood [Schaffer,J] |
16014 | It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one [Noonan] |
14604 | If a notion is ontologically basic, it should be needed in our best attempt at science [Schaffer,J] |
14599 | Three types of reduction: Theoretical (of terms), Definitional (of concepts), Ontological (of reality) [Schaffer,J] |
14605 | Tropes are the same as events [Schaffer,J] |
18864 | The wisdom of Plato and of Socrates are not the same property [Tallant] |
14601 | Individuation aims to count entities, by saying when there is one [Schaffer,J] |
18865 | Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing [Tallant] |
16024 | I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan] |
16023 | Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan] |
16015 | Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan] |
16017 | Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan] |
16016 | Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan] |
16020 | Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan] |
16018 | Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan] |
16019 | Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan] |
14606 | Only ideal conceivability could indicate what is possible [Schaffer,J] |
18862 | Are propositions all the thoughts and sentences that are possible? [Tallant] |