6 ideas
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
7388 | McGinn invites surrender, by saying it is hopeless trying to imagine conscious machines [Dennett on McGinn] |
3185 | Multiple realisability rules out hidden essences and experts as the source of water- and gold-concepts [McGinn] |