10 ideas
20728 | Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin] |
15547 | Negative existentials have 'totality facts' as truthmakers [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
16045 | General facts supervene on particular facts, but cannot be inferred from them [Russell, by Bennett,K] |
20726 | We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality [Colvin] |
20727 | Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life [Colvin] |
20730 | If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin] |
20729 | Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin] |
20731 | The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin] |
14327 | Trope theorists cannot explain how tropes resemble each other [Russell, by Mumford] |
15542 | All possibilities are recombinations of properties in the actual world [Armstrong, by Lewis] |