11 ideas
18439 | Because things can share attributes, we cannot individuate attributes clearly [Quine] |
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] |
18442 | You only know an attribute if you know what things have it [Quine] |
18441 | No entity without identity (which requires a principle of individuation) [Quine] |
4480 | Times and places are identified by objects, so cannot be used in a theory of object-identity [Loux] |
18440 | Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine] |
12729 | The cause of a change is not the real influence, but whatever gives a reason for the change [Leibniz] |