10 ideas
13591 | Quantified modal logic collapses if essence is withdrawn [Quine] |
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
13590 | Essences can make sense in a particular context or enquiry, as the most basic predicates [Quine] |
8483 | Necessity is relative to context; it is what is assumed in an inquiry [Quine] |
13589 | Possible worlds are a way to dramatise essentialism, and yet they presuppose essentialism [Quine] |
13588 | A rigid designator (for all possible worlds) picks out an object by its essential traits [Quine] |
13592 | Beliefs can be ascribed to machines [Quine] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |