17 ideas
10397 | Abelard's mereology involves privileged and natural divisions, and principal parts [Abelard, by King,P] |
21642 | If quantification is all substitutional, there is no ontology [Quine] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
18964 | Ontology is relative to both a background theory and a translation manual [Quine] |
10396 | If 'animal' is wholly present in Socrates and an ass, then 'animal' is rational and irrational [Abelard, by King,P] |
10395 | Abelard was an irrealist about virtually everything apart from concrete individuals [Abelard, by King,P] |
15384 | Only words can be 'predicated of many'; the universality is just in its mode of signifying [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
18965 | We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine] |
8481 | The de dicto-de re modality distinction dates back to Abelard [Abelard, by Orenstein] |
1634 | Two things are relative - the background theory, and translating the object theory into the background theory [Quine] |
15385 | Abelard's problem is the purely singular aspects of things won't account for abstraction [Panaccio on Abelard] |
8470 | Reference is inscrutable, because we cannot choose between theories of numbers [Quine, by Orenstein] |
15383 | Nothing external can truly be predicated of an object [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
18963 | Indeterminacy translating 'rabbit' depends on translating individuation terms [Quine] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
10398 | Natural kinds are not special; they are just well-defined resemblance collections [Abelard, by King,P] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |