24 ideas
21054 | Reason enables the unbounded extension of our rules and intentions [Kant] |
9108 | From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham] |
9107 | A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing [William of Ockham] |
16300 | Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [William of Ockham, by Halbach] |
12797 | If plural variables have 'some values', then non-count variables have 'some value' [Laycock] |
9106 | The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men [William of Ockham] |
12794 | Plurals are semantical but not ontological [Laycock] |
17694 | Some non-count nouns can be used for counting, as in 'several wines' or 'fewer cheeses' [Laycock] |
17695 | Some apparent non-count words can take plural forms, such as 'snows' or 'waters' [Laycock] |
9113 | Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things [William of Ockham] |
9110 | The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb [William of Ockham] |
12792 | The category of stuff does not suit reference [Laycock] |
12799 | Descriptions of stuff are neither singular aggregates nor plural collections [Laycock] |
12818 | We shouldn't think some water retains its identity when it is mixed with air [Laycock] |
15388 | Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify [William of Ockham] |
12795 | Parts must be of the same very general type as the wholes [Laycock] |
9109 | If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible [William of Ockham] |
17696 | 'Humility is a virtue' has an abstract noun, but 'water is a liquid' has a generic concrete noun [Laycock] |
21053 | The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature [Kant] |
12791 | It is said that proper reference is our intellectual link with the world [Laycock] |
9105 | Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language [William of Ockham] |
21055 | Our aim is a constitution which combines maximum freedom with strong restraint [Kant] |
21056 | The vitality of business needs maximum freedom (while avoiding harm to others) [Kant] |
21057 | The highest ideal of social progress is a universal cosmopolitan existence [Kant] |