9 ideas
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] |
23395 | Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden] |
23394 | If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi] |
23396 | Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi] |
23397 | Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi] |
20948 | Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |