10 ideas
16659 | Relations do not add anything to reality, though they are real aspects of the world [Olivi] |
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] |
16673 | Quantity just adds union and location to the extension of parts [Olivi] |
20767 | Culture is now dominated by boredom, so universal it is unnoticed [Heidegger, by Aho] |
16663 | Things are limited by the species to certain modes of being [Olivi] |