12 ideas
10397 | Abelard's mereology involves privileged and natural divisions, and principal parts [Abelard, by King,P] |
18528 | The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol] |
10396 | If 'animal' is wholly present in Socrates and an ass, then 'animal' is rational and irrational [Abelard, by King,P] |
10395 | Abelard was an irrealist about virtually everything apart from concrete individuals [Abelard, by King,P] |
15384 | Only words can be 'predicated of many'; the universality is just in its mode of signifying [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
8481 | The de dicto-de re modality distinction dates back to Abelard [Abelard, by Orenstein] |
15385 | Abelard's problem is the purely singular aspects of things won't account for abstraction [Panaccio on Abelard] |
15383 | Nothing external can truly be predicated of an object [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
16589 | Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol] |
10398 | Natural kinds are not special; they are just well-defined resemblance collections [Abelard, by King,P] |
18202 | The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld] |
16651 | God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol] |