8 ideas
16676 | Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham] |
14590 | If we accept scattered objects such as archipelagos, why not think of cars that way? [Hawthorne] |
14591 | Four-dimensionalists say instantaneous objects are more fundamental than long-lived ones [Hawthorne] |
14589 | A modal can reverse meaning if the context is seen differently, so maybe context is all? [Hawthorne] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
16675 | Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham] |
14588 | Modern metaphysicians tend to think space-time points are more fundamental than space-time regions [Hawthorne] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |