11 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
13804 | A property is essential iff the object would not exist if it lacked that property [Forbes,G] |
13805 | Properties are trivially essential if they are not grounded in a thing's specific nature [Forbes,G] |
13808 | A relation is essential to two items if it holds in every world where they exist [Forbes,G] |
13806 | Trivially essential properties are existence, self-identity, and de dicto necessities [Forbes,G] |
13807 | A property is 'extraneously essential' if it is had only because of the properties of other objects [Forbes,G] |
13809 | One might be essentialist about the original bronze from which a statue was made [Forbes,G] |
13810 | The source of de dicto necessity is not concepts, but the actual properties of the thing [Forbes,G] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
17722 | The concept 'red' is tied to what actually individuates red things [Peacocke] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |