8 ideas
12154 | Are 'word token' and 'word type' different sorts of countable objects, or two ways of counting? [Geach, by Perry] |
13095 | Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz] |
8969 | We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne] |
16075 | Denial of absolute identity has drastic implications for logic, semantics and set theory [Wasserman on Geach] |
12152 | Identity is relative. One must not say things are 'the same', but 'the same A as' [Geach] |
16073 | Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate [Geach, by Wasserman] |
5960 | When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch] |
2117 | The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz] |