10 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
23889 | Among the Greeks Aristotle is the only philosopher in the modern style [Weil] |
4483 | If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux] |
4481 | Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [Loux] |
4477 | Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux] |
4482 | Austere nominalism has to take a host of things (like being red, or human) as primitive [Loux] |
4478 | Nominalism needs to account for abstract singular terms like 'circularity'. [Loux] |
4480 | Times and places are identified by objects, so cannot be used in a theory of object-identity [Loux] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
23892 | The only legitimate proof of God by order derives from beauty [Weil] |