15 ideas
| 13591 | Quantified modal logic collapses if essence is withdrawn [Quine] |
| 11976 | Aristotelian essentialism says essences are not relative to specification [Lewis] |
| 13590 | Essences can make sense in a particular context or enquiry, as the most basic predicates [Quine] |
| 11978 | Causal necessities hold in all worlds compatible with the laws of nature [Lewis] |
| 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] |
| 11979 | It doesn't take the whole of a possible Humphrey to win the election [Lewis] |
| 13588 | A rigid designator (for all possible worlds) picks out an object by its essential traits [Quine] |
| 16994 | Counterpart theory is bizarre, as no one cares what happens to a mere counterpart [Kripke on Lewis] |
| 11974 | Counterparts are not the original thing, but resemble it more than other things do [Lewis] |
| 11975 | If the closest resembler to you is in fact quite unlike you, then you have no counterpart [Lewis] |
| 11977 | Essential attributes are those shared with all the counterparts [Lewis] |
| 13592 | Beliefs can be ascribed to machines [Quine] |
| 541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
| 542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |