9607 | The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR on Plato] |
16086 | Objects lacking matter are intrinsic unities [Aristotle] |
12990 | Real (non-logical) abstract terms are either essences or accidents [Leibniz] |
8647 | Not all objects are spatial; 4 can still be an object, despite lacking spatial co-ordinates [Frege] |
10545 | Abstract objects may not cause changes, but they can be the subject of change [Dummett] |
9885 | The existence of abstract objects is a pseudo-problem [Dummett] |
10487 | I am a fan of abstract objects, and confident of their existence [Boolos] |
10414 | Abstract objects are constituted by encoded collections of properties [Zalta, by Swoyer] |
10558 | Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta] |
17785 | Real numbers as abstracted objects are now treated as complete ordered fields [Mayberry] |
10403 | If properties are abstract objects, then their being abstract exemplifies being abstract [Swoyer] |
10514 | If the mental is non-spatial but temporal, then it must be classified as abstract [Hale] |
10513 | Many abstract objects, such as chess, seem non-spatial, but are not atemporal [Hale] |
10518 | Shapes and directions are of something, but games and musical compositions are not [Hale] |
10523 | Being abstract is based on a relation between things which are spatially separated [Hale] |
8704 | Structuralists call a mathematical 'object' simply a 'place in a structure' [Friend] |