5 ideas
10190 | From the axiomatic point of view, mathematics is a storehouse of abstract structures [Bourbaki] |
16463 | Adams says actual things have haecceities, but not things that only might exist [Adams,RM, by Stalnaker] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |