15 ideas
24069 | Much metaphysical debate concerns what is fundamental, rather than what exists [Koslicki] |
24065 | Structured wholes are united by the teamwork needed for their capacities [Koslicki] |
11181 | Aristotelian essentialism involves a 'natural' or 'causal' interpretation of modal operators [Marcus (Barcan)] |
24066 | The form explains kind, structure, unity and activity [Koslicki] |
11184 | Aristotelian essentialism is about shared properties, individuating essentialism about distinctive properties [Marcus (Barcan)] |
24067 | Hylomorphic compounds need an individual form for transworld identity [Koslicki] |
11180 | Essentialist sentences are not theorems of modal logic, and can even be false [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11186 | 'Essentially' won't replace 'necessarily' for vacuous properties like snub-nosed or self-identical [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11185 | 'Is essentially' has a different meaning from 'is necessarily', as they often cannot be substituted [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11182 | If essences are objects with only essential properties, they are elusive in possible worlds [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11183 | The use of possible worlds is to sort properties (not to individuate objects) [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11187 | In possible worlds, names are just neutral unvarying pegs for truths and predicates [Marcus (Barcan)] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
11189 | Dispositional essences are special, as if an object loses them they cease to exist [Marcus (Barcan)] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |