8 ideas
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
13074 | Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
7563 | The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |