12 ideas
13931 | By using aporiai as his start, Aristotle can defer to the wise, as well as to the many [Haslanger] |
13925 | Ontology disputes rest on more basic explanation disputes [Haslanger] |
18528 | The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
13924 | The persistence of objects seems to be needed if the past is to explain the present [Haslanger] |
13930 | Persistence makes change and its products intelligible [Haslanger] |
13927 | We must explain change amongst 'momentary entities', or else the world is inexplicable [Haslanger] |
13928 | If the things which exist prior to now are totally distinct, they need not have existed [Haslanger] |
13929 | Natural explanations give the causal interconnections [Haslanger] |
13926 | Best explanations, especially natural ones, need grounding, notably by persistent objects [Haslanger] |
16589 | Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol] |
16651 | God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol] |