6 ideas
10800 | The values of variables can't determine existence, because they are just expressions [Ryle, by Quine] |
14633 | How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson] |
14635 | An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson] |
14632 | Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
5470 | The idea of laws of nature arose in the Middle Ages [Hall,AR, by Ellis] |