19 ideas
17867 | If a concept is not compact, it will not be presentable to finite minds [Almog] |
17877 | The number series is primitive, not the result of some set theoretic axioms [Almog] |
12312 | The real essence of a thing is its powers, or 'dispositional properties' [Copi] |
17871 | Fregean meanings are analogous to conceptual essence, defining a kind [Almog] |
17866 | Essential definition aims at existence conditions and structural truths [Almog] |
17868 | Surface accounts aren't exhaustive as they always allow unintended twin cases [Almog] |
17872 | Definitionalists rely on snapshot-concepts, instead of on the real processes [Almog] |
10937 | Essential properties are the 'deepest' ones which explain the others [Copi, by Rami] |
17870 | Alien 'tigers' can't be tigers if they are not related to our tigers [Almog] |
12308 | In modern science, nominal essence is intended to be real essence [Copi] |
17869 | Kripke and Putnam offer an intermediary between real and nominal essences [Almog] |
17876 | Individual essences are just cobbled together classificatory predicates [Almog] |
12303 | Within the four types of change, essential attributes are those whose loss means destruction [Copi] |
17873 | Water must be related to water, just as tigers must be related to tigers [Almog] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
12307 | Modern science seeks essences, and is getting closer to them [Copi] |
12310 | Real essences are scientifically knowable, but so are non-essential properties [Copi] |
17864 | Defining an essence comes no where near giving a thing's nature [Almog] |
17863 | Essences promise to reveal reality, but actually drive us away from it [Almog] |