13 ideas
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
16014 | It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one [Noonan] |
14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
16024 | I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan] |
16023 | Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan] |
16016 | Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan] |
16017 | Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan] |
16015 | Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan] |
16020 | Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan] |
16019 | Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan] |
16018 | Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |