8 ideas
16567 | Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D] |
17945 | Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas] |
17946 | Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas] |
8443 | Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
8442 | What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa] |
8445 | The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa] |
8444 | Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa] |