13 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
16014 | It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one [Noonan] |
16024 | I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan] |
16023 | Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan] |
16015 | Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan] |
16017 | Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan] |
16016 | Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan] |
16020 | Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan] |
16018 | Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan] |
16019 | Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
2594 | A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |