8 ideas
21916 | Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer] |
14633 | How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson] |
14635 | An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson] |
14632 | Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
21924 | As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
21915 | To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer] |