8 ideas
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
18665 | Moral problems are responsibility conflicts, needing contextual and narrative attention to relationships [Gilligan] |