7 ideas
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] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
4375 | Evaluations are not disguised emotions; instead, emotion is a type of evaluation [Achtenberg] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |