6 ideas
7491 | The phases of human thought are theological, then metaphysical, then positivist [Comte, by Watson] |
14592 | Some abstract things have a beginning and end, so may exist in time (though not space) [Swoyer] |
14594 | Ontologists seek existence and identity conditions, and modal and epistemic status for a thing [Swoyer] |
14595 | Can properties exemplify other properties? [Swoyer] |
18431 | Internal relations combine some tropes into a nucleus, which bears the non-essential tropes [Simons, by Edwards] |
14593 | Quantum field theory suggests that there are, fundamentally, no individual things [Swoyer] |