19 ideas
19426 | 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz] |
11197 | The definitions expressing identity are used to sort things [Aquinas] |
13070 | If definitions must be general, and general terms can't individuate, then Socrates can't be defined [Aquinas, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
11195 | If affirmative propositions express being, we affirm about what is absent [Aquinas] |
11201 | Properties have an incomplete essence, with definitions referring to their subject [Aquinas] |
11205 | If the form of 'human' contains 'many', Socrates isn't human; if it contains 'one', Socrates is Plato [Aquinas] |
13090 | The principle of diversity for corporeal substances is their matter [Aquinas, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
11202 | It is by having essence that things exist [Aquinas] |
11203 | Specific individual essence is defined by material, and generic essence is defined by form [Aquinas] |
11200 | The definition of a physical object must include the material as well as the form [Aquinas] |
11196 | Essence is something in common between the natures which sort things into categories [Aquinas] |
11208 | A simple substance is its own essence [Aquinas] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
11198 | Definition of essence makes things understandable [Aquinas] |
19427 | True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz] |
11206 | The mind constructs complete attributions, based on the unified elements of the real world [Aquinas] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |
11207 | A cause can exist without its effect, but the effect cannot exist without its cause [Aquinas] |