10 ideas
| 14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
| 14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
| 14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
| 14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
| 14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
| 1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
| 14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
| 5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
| 14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |