20 ideas
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] |
12766 | Logical space is abstracted from the actual world [Stalnaker] |
9106 | The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men [William of Ockham] |
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] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
15388 | Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify [William of Ockham] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
12764 | For the bare particular view, properties must be features, not just groups of objects [Stalnaker] |
9109 | If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible [William of Ockham] |
12761 | An essential property is one had in all the possible worlds where a thing exists [Stalnaker] |
12763 | Necessarily self-identical, or being what it is, or its world-indexed properties, aren't essential [Stalnaker] |
12762 | Bare particular anti-essentialism makes no sense within modal logic semantics [Stalnaker] |
12765 | Why imagine that Babe Ruth might be a billiard ball; nothing useful could be said about the ball [Stalnaker] |
9105 | Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language [William of Ockham] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |