8 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] |
23801 | Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |