12 ideas
11178 | The essence or definition of an essence involves either a class of properties or a class of propositions [Fine,K] |
8956 | What is a singleton set, if a set is meant to be a collection of objects? [Szabó] |
11175 | Logical concepts rest on certain inferences, not on facts about implications [Fine,K] |
11176 | The property of Property Abstraction says any suitable condition must imply a property [Fine,K] |
11174 | A logical truth is true in virtue of the nature of the logical concepts [Fine,K] |
8953 | Abstract entities don't depend on their concrete entities ...but maybe on the totality of concrete things [Szabó] |
11177 | Can the essence of an object circularly involve itself, or involve another object? [Fine,K] |
11173 | Being a man is a consequence of his essence, not constitutive of it [Fine,K] |
11179 | If there are alternative definitions, then we have three possibilities for essence [Fine,K] |
8954 | Geometrical circles cannot identify a circular paint patch, presumably because they lack something [Szabó] |
3178 | A fast machine could pass all behavioural tests with a vast lookup table [Block, by Rey] |
8955 | Abstractions are imperceptible, non-causal, and non-spatiotemporal (the third explaining the others) [Szabó] |