7 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
13952 | Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R] |
13954 | The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R] |
13955 | Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R] |
13953 | An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
20441 | An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto] |