18 ideas
10653 | Maybe set theory need not be well-founded [Varzi] |
10648 | Mereology need not be nominalist, though it is often taken to be so [Varzi] |
10655 | Are there mereological atoms, and are all objects made of them? [Varzi] |
10659 | There is something of which everything is part, but no null-thing which is part of everything [Varzi] |
10661 | 'Composition is identity' says multitudes are the reality, loosely composing single things [Varzi] |
10654 | The parthood relation will help to define at least seven basic predicates [Varzi] |
10651 | If 'part' is reflexive, then identity is a limit case of parthood [Varzi] |
10649 | 'Part' stands for a reflexive, antisymmetric and transitive relation [Varzi] |
10647 | Parts may or may not be attached, demarcated, arbitrary, material, extended, spatial or temporal [Varzi] |
10658 | Sameness of parts won't guarantee identity if their arrangement matters [Varzi] |
10652 | Conceivability may indicate possibility, but literary fantasy does not [Varzi] |
20440 | Art is a referential activity, hence indefinable, but it has a set of symptoms [Goodman] |
12167 | Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton] |
20439 | Artistic symbols are judged by the fruitfulness of their classifications [Goodman, by Giovannelli] |
12166 | If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton] |
20438 | A performance is only an instance of a work if there is not a single error [Goodman] |
12168 | Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton] |
20437 | A copy only becomes an 'instance' of an artwork if there is a system of notation [Goodman] |