8 ideas
| 20183 | So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen] |
| 14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
| 14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
| 14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
| 14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
| 20182 | The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen] |
| 14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
| 1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |