13 ideas
| 16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
| 411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
| 412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
| 16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
| 7522 | A full neural account of qualia will give new epistemic access to them, beyond private experience [Churchlands] |
| 7521 | It is question-begging to assume that qualia are totally simple, hence irreducible [Churchlands] |
| 7523 | The qualia Hard Problem is easy, in comparison with the co-ordination of mental states [Churchlands] |
| 1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
| 16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
| 16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |
| 3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |
| 408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |