8 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
12432 | Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale] |
12434 | Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale] |
12435 | The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale] |
12433 | If necessity rests on linguistic conventions, those are contingent, so there is no necessity [Hale] |
12436 | Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
3648 | Empiricists are collecting ants; rationalists are spinning spiders; and bees do both [Bacon] |