7 ideas
21598 | Austin revealed many meanings for 'vague': rough, ambiguous, general, incomplete... [Austin,JL, by Williamson] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |