13 ideas
| 4483 | If abstract terms are sets of tropes, 'being a unicorn' and 'being a griffin' turn out identical [Loux] |
| 4477 | Universals come in hierarchies of generality [Loux] |
| 4481 | Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability [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] |
| 20180 | A happy and joyous life must largely be a quiet life [Russell] |
| 20178 | Life is now more interesting, but boredom is more frightening [Russell] |
| 20179 | Happiness involves enduring boredom, and the young should be taught this [Russell] |
| 20177 | Boredom always involves not being fully occupied [Russell] |
| 20176 | Boredom is an increasingly strong motivating power [Russell] |
| 13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
| 20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |