14 ideas
7910 | Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha] |
13591 | Quantified modal logic collapses if essence is withdrawn [Quine] |
3626 | Knowing the attributes is enough to reveal a substance [Descartes] |
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] |
3630 | Our thinking about external things doesn't disprove the existence of innate ideas [Descartes] |
3631 | A blind man may still contain the idea of colour [Descartes] |
3640 | Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes] |
3639 | Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes] |
7909 | The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha] |
7908 | At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha] |