8 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
15035 | If universals are not separate, we can isolate them by abstraction [Boethius, by Panaccio] |
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |