"There are ideal forms which exist in separate from the world as we know it in a kind of heaven."
Who is Plato?
100
Philosophers who endorse Plato's schema of Metaphysics.
Who are realists (with a little "r")?
100
A form of Nominalism which rejects anything that is not a concrete particular, including abstract reference.
What is Austere Nominalism?
100
Modality statements that deal with propositions.
What is De Dicto Modality?
100
An imaginary foreign term which could mean anything from rabbit, undetatched rabbit part, or a temporal stage of rabbit
What is Gavagai?
200
"Words are like labels in a museum the exhibits are their meaning."
Who is Quine?
200
These can be either One-Place (Monadic) or Many-Place (Polyadic).
What are Universals?
200
The theory that suggests, "When you cut my hair, I cease to exist."
What is Bundle Theory?
200
A type of parsimony deals with the number of types/kinds of thing postulated.
What is Qualitative Parsimony?
200
They believe objects of thought are independent of cognition.
Who are Realists?
300
"Possible worlds are rooted in common sense."
Who is David Lewis?
300
This is a theory that says there is a world of sense and a world of ideas.
What is Plato's Theory of Ideas?
300
This has to be separable and “a this”.
What is a Kind?
300
Lewis's way of getting around the Indiscernibility of Identicals in his theory of possible worlds.
What are Counterparts?
300
Tall, rich, and bald are all examples of this.
What are Vague Predicates?
400
"God is responsible for actualizing our world among all possible worlds."
Who is Plantinga?
400
This says that universals manifest in particulars, and there can be no universals which aren't instantiated.
What is the Principle of Instantiation?
400
The lowest level kind to which substance belongs.
What is Infima Species?
400
His theory says that possible worlds exist based on contingency.
Who is David Lewis?
400
This says that all possible worlds really exist, though they don't all come into being.
What is Actualism?
500
"You may know something in that you are acquainted with the concept, even if you don't know it in such a way that you are able to visibly recognize it."
Who is Allaire?
500
This is a group that believes space-time is all the exists and reject universals.
Who are Naturalists?
500
A movement that says for a proposition to be meaningful, it must be able to be tested empirically.