8 ideas
8000 | He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre] |
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
22370 | Big central government only exists as a focus for anger - not to act [Fisher] |
22368 | It is hard to imagine the end of capitalism [Fisher] |
22369 | Are students consumers or products of education? [Fisher] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |