6 ideas
| 7536 | If you hope to improve the world, all you can do is improve yourself [Wittgenstein] |
| 16030 | 'Nominal' definitions identify things, but fail to give their essence [Jones,J-E] |
| 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] |
| 15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |