18 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
16014 | It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one [Noonan] |
15565 | Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis] |
15567 | Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis] |
15566 | Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis] |
15561 | The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis] |
15564 | An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis] |
15563 | Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis] |
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] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
15562 | Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis] |