14 ideas
16210 | Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis] |
18528 | The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol] |
14193 | 'Substance theorists' take modal properties as primitive, without structure, just falling under a sortal [Paul,LA] |
14195 | If an object's sort determines its properties, we need to ask what determines its sort [Paul,LA] |
14196 | Substance essentialism says an object is multiple, as falling under various different sortals [Paul,LA] |
14198 | Absolutely unrestricted qualitative composition would allow things with incompatible properties [Paul,LA] |
14190 | Deep essentialist objects have intrinsic properties that fix their nature; the shallow version makes it contextual [Paul,LA] |
14191 | Deep essentialists say essences constrain how things could change; modal profiles fix natures [Paul,LA] |
14192 | Essentialism must deal with charges of arbitrariness, and failure to reduce de re modality [Paul,LA] |
14197 | An object's modal properties don't determine its possibilities [Paul,LA] |
14189 | 'Modal realists' believe in many concrete worlds, 'actualists' in just this world, 'ersatzists' in abstract other worlds [Paul,LA] |
16589 | Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol] |
9426 | The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis] |
16651 | God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol] |