8 ideas
8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8962 | 'There are shapes which are never exemplified' is the toughest example for nominalists [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8961 | Nominalists are motivated by Ockham's Razor and a distrust of unobservables [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
16700 | In order to speak about time and successive entities, the 'present' must be enlarged [Wycliff] |
16701 | To be successive a thing needs parts, which must therefore be lodged outside that instant [Wycliff] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
8963 | Four theories of possible worlds: conceptualist, combinatorial, abstract, or concrete [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |