11 ideas
16129 | Evans argues (falsely!) that a contradiction follows from treating objects as vague [Evans, by Lowe] |
16459 | Is it coherent that reality is vague, identities can be vague, and objects can have fuzzy boundaries? [Evans] |
16457 | There clearly are vague identity statements, and Evans's argument has a false conclusion [Evans, by Lewis] |
16460 | Evans assumes there can be vague identity statements, and that his proof cannot be right [Evans, by Lewis] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
14484 | If a=b is indeterminate, then a=/=b, and so there cannot be indeterminate identity [Evans, by Thomasson] |
16224 | There can't be vague identity; a and b must differ, since a, unlike b, is only vaguely the same as b [Evans, by PG] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |