10 ideas
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
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] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
16627 | If you remove the accidents from a horse and a lion, the intellect can't tell them apart [Francis of Marchia] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |