10 ideas
9406 | A class is natural when everybody can spot further members of it [Quinton] |
16210 | Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis] |
15730 | Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention [Quinton] |
15728 | The naturalness of a class depends as much on the observers as on the objects [Quinton] |
9407 | Properties imply natural classes which can be picked out by everybody [Quinton] |
15729 | Uninstantiated properties must be defined using the instantiated ones [Quinton] |
8520 | An individual is a union of a group of qualities and a position [Quinton, by Campbell,K] |
9426 | The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |