Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Dispositional Essentialism Grounds Laws of Nature?' and 'Grundlagen (Foundations of Theory of Manifolds)'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

8 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

15946

Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation [Cantor, by Lavine]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

15911

Ordinals are generated by endless succession, followed by a limit ordinal [Cantor, by Lavine]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / c. Dispositions as conditional

14348

An 'antidote' allows a manifestation to begin, but then blocks it [Corry]

14347

A 'finkish' disposition is one that is lost immediately after the appropriate stimulus [Corry]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / d. Dispositions as occurrent

14350

If a disposition is never instantiated, it shouldn't be part of our theory of nature [Corry]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

14351

Maybe an experiment unmasks an essential disposition, and reveals its regularities [Corry]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

14346

Dispositional essentialism says fundamental laws of nature are strict, not ceteris paribus [Corry]