Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Ordinatio' and 'Two letters on mind'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

16635

Incorporeal substances are powers or forces [Descartes, by Pasnau]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals

9103	A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind [William of Ockham]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

3061	Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

9104	A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing [William of Ockham]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension

16684

Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes]