16 ideas
12354 | A 'categorial' property is had by virtue of being or having an item from a category [Wedin] |
14329 | Some dispositional properties (such as mental ones) may have no categorical base [Price,HH] |
22320 | An 'object' is just what can be referred to without possible non-existence [Wittgenstein] |
12358 | Substance is a principle and a kind of cause [Wedin] |
12346 | Form explains why some matter is of a certain kind, and that is explanatory bedrock [Wedin] |
9032 | Before we can abstract from an instance of violet, we must first recognise it [Price,HH] |
9035 | If judgement of a characteristic is possible, that part of abstraction must be complete [Price,HH] |
9034 | There may be degrees of abstraction which allow recognition by signs, without full concepts [Price,HH] |
9036 | There is pre-verbal sign-based abstraction, as when ice actually looks cold [Price,HH] |
9037 | Intelligent behaviour, even in animals, has something abstract about it [Price,HH] |
9033 | Recognition must precede the acquisition of basic concepts, so it is the fundamental intellectual process [Price,HH] |
9030 | Abstractions can be interpreted dispositionally, as the ability to recognise or imagine an item [Price,HH] |
9029 | If ideas have to be images, then abstract ideas become a paradoxical problem [Price,HH] |
9031 | The basic concepts of conceptual cognition are acquired by direct abstraction from instances [Price,HH] |
18283 | Language pictures the essence of the world [Wittgenstein] |
18282 | You can't believe it if you can't imagine a verification for it [Wittgenstein] |