9 ideas
14221 | Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities [Shalkowski] |
14222 | Essences are what it is to be that (kind of) thing - in fact, they are the thing's identity [Shalkowski] |
14226 | We distinguish objects by their attributes, not by their essences [Shalkowski] |
14225 | Critics say that essences are too mysterious to be known [Shalkowski] |
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] |
7845 | When we need to do something, we depute an inner servant to remind us of it [Proust] |
14224 | Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection [Shalkowski] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |