20 ideas
| 17867 | If a concept is not compact, it will not be presentable to finite minds [Almog] |
| 17877 | The number series is primitive, not the result of some set theoretic axioms [Almog] |
| 14221 | Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities [Shalkowski] |
| 17871 | Fregean meanings are analogous to conceptual essence, defining a kind [Almog] |
| 17866 | Essential definition aims at existence conditions and structural truths [Almog] |
| 17868 | Surface accounts aren't exhaustive as they always allow unintended twin cases [Almog] |
| 17872 | Definitionalists rely on snapshot-concepts, instead of on the real processes [Almog] |
| 14222 | Essences are what it is to be that (kind of) thing - in fact, they are the thing's identity [Shalkowski] |
| 17870 | Alien 'tigers' can't be tigers if they are not related to our tigers [Almog] |
| 14226 | We distinguish objects by their attributes, not by their essences [Shalkowski] |
| 17869 | Kripke and Putnam offer an intermediary between real and nominal essences [Almog] |
| 14225 | Critics say that essences are too mysterious to be known [Shalkowski] |
| 17876 | Individual essences are just cobbled together classificatory predicates [Almog] |
| 14223 | De dicto necessity has linguistic entities as their source, so it is a type of de re necessity [Shalkowski] |
| 9220 | Lewis must specify that all possibilities are in his worlds, making the whole thing circular [Shalkowski, by Sider] |
| 17873 | Water must be related to water, just as tigers must be related to tigers [Almog] |
| 14224 | Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection [Shalkowski] |
| 17864 | Defining an essence comes no where near giving a thing's nature [Almog] |
| 17863 | Essences promise to reveal reality, but actually drive us away from it [Almog] |
| 1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |