26 ideas
12797 | If plural variables have 'some values', then non-count variables have 'some value' [Laycock] |
8525 | Relations need terms, so they must be second-order entities based on first-order tropes [Campbell,K] |
12794 | Plurals are semantical but not ontological [Laycock] |
17694 | Some non-count nouns can be used for counting, as in 'several wines' or 'fewer cheeses' [Laycock] |
17695 | Some apparent non-count words can take plural forms, such as 'snows' or 'waters' [Laycock] |
8518 | Events are trope-sequences, in which tropes replace one another [Campbell,K] |
12792 | The category of stuff does not suit reference [Laycock] |
12799 | Descriptions of stuff are neither singular aggregates nor plural collections [Laycock] |
12818 | We shouldn't think some water retains its identity when it is mixed with air [Laycock] |
8513 | Two red cloths are separate instances of redness, because you can dye one of them blue [Campbell,K] |
8514 | Red could only recur in a variety of objects if it was many, which makes them particulars [Campbell,K] |
8522 | Tropes solve the Companionship Difficulty, since the resemblance is only between abstract particulars [Campbell,K] |
8523 | Tropes solve the Imperfect Community problem, as they can only resemble in one respect [Campbell,K] |
8524 | Trope theory makes space central to reality, as tropes must have a shape and size [Campbell,K] |
8521 | Nominalism has the problem that without humans nothing would resemble anything else [Campbell,K] |
8515 | Tropes are basic particulars, so concrete particulars are collections of co-located tropes [Campbell,K] |
8519 | Bundles must be unique, so the Identity of Indiscernibles is a necessity - which it isn't! [Campbell,K] |
12795 | Parts must be of the same very general type as the wholes [Laycock] |
4033 | Two pure spheres in non-absolute space are identical but indiscernible [Campbell,K] |
17696 | 'Humility is a virtue' has an abstract noun, but 'water is a liquid' has a generic concrete noun [Laycock] |
8512 | Abstractions come before the mind by concentrating on a part of what is presented [Campbell,K] |
12791 | It is said that proper reference is our intellectual link with the world [Laycock] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
8517 | Causal conditions are particular abstract instances of properties, which makes them tropes [Campbell,K] |
8516 | Davidson can't explain causation entirely by events, because conditions are also involved [Campbell,K] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |