11 ideas
20771 | Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius] |
15545 | Armstrong's analysis seeks truthmakers rather than definitions [Lewis] |
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
15546 | Predications aren't true because of what exists, but of how it exists [Lewis] |
15548 | Say 'truth is supervenient on being', but construe 'being' broadly [Lewis] |
14399 | Presentism says only the present exists, so there is nothing for tensed truths to supervene on [Lewis] |
15543 | How do things combine to make states of affairs? Constituents can repeat, and fail to combine [Lewis] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
20831 | The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |