16 ideas
8915 | How we refer to abstractions is much less clear than how we refer to other things [Rosen] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
2596 | Maybe mind and body are parallel, like two good clocks [Leibniz] |
5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
8917 | The Way of Abstraction used to say an abstraction is an idea that was formed by abstracting [Rosen] |
8912 | Nowadays abstractions are defined as non-spatial, causally inert things [Rosen] |
8913 | Chess may be abstract, but it has existed in specific space and time [Rosen] |
8914 | Sets are said to be abstract and non-spatial, but a set of books can be on a shelf [Rosen] |
8916 | Conflating abstractions with either sets or universals is a big claim, needing a big defence [Rosen] |
8918 | Functional terms can pick out abstractions by asserting an equivalence relation [Rosen] |
8919 | Abstraction by equivalence relationships might prove that a train is an abstract entity [Rosen] |
20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
2595 | If the universe is a perfect agreement of uncommunicating substances, there must be a common source [Leibniz] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |