15 ideas
| 10397 | Abelard's mereology involves privileged and natural divisions, and principal parts [Abelard, by King,P] |
| 17505 | Using proper names properly doesn't involve necessary and sufficient conditions [Putnam] |
| 10395 | Abelard was an irrealist about virtually everything apart from concrete individuals [Abelard, by King,P] |
| 10396 | If 'animal' is wholly present in Socrates and an ass, then 'animal' is rational and irrational [Abelard, by King,P] |
| 15384 | Only words can be 'predicated of many'; the universality is just in its mode of signifying [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
| 11908 | Putnam bases essences on 'same kind', but same kinds may not share properties [Mackie,P on Putnam] |
| 8481 | The de dicto-de re modality distinction dates back to Abelard [Abelard, by Orenstein] |
| 17508 | Science aims at truth, not at 'simplicity' [Putnam] |
| 15385 | Abelard's problem is the purely singular aspects of things won't account for abstraction [Panaccio on Abelard] |
| 17506 | I now think reference by the tests of experts is a special case of being causally connected [Putnam] |
| 15383 | Nothing external can truly be predicated of an object [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
| 468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
| 17507 | Natural kind stereotypes are 'strong' (obvious, like tiger) or 'weak' (obscure, like molybdenum) [Putnam] |
| 11904 | Express natural kinds as a posteriori predicate connections, not as singular terms [Putnam, by Mackie,P] |
| 10398 | Natural kinds are not special; they are just well-defined resemblance collections [Abelard, by King,P] |