15 ideas
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
15118 | A successful Aristotelian 'definition' is what sciences produces after an investigation [Koslicki] |
15116 | Essences cause necessary features, and definitions describe those necessary features [Koslicki] |
6408 | Russell needed three extra axioms to reduce maths to logic: infinity, choice and reducibility [Grayling] |
15110 | An essence and what merely follow from it are distinct [Koslicki] |
15113 | Individuals are perceived, but demonstration and definition require universals [Koslicki] |
15112 | If an object exists, then its essential properties are necessary [Koslicki] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
6414 | Two propositions might seem self-evident, but contradict one another [Grayling] |
15111 | In demonstration, the explanatory order must mirror the causal order of the phenomena [Koslicki] |
15115 | In a demonstration the middle term explains, by being part of the definition [Koslicki] |
15117 | Greek uses the same word for 'cause' and 'explanation' [Koslicki] |
15114 | Discovering the Aristotelian essence of thunder will tell us why thunder occurs [Koslicki] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |