8 ideas
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |