13 ideas
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
10938 | The extremes of essentialism are that all properties are essential, or only very trivial ones [Rami] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
10940 | An 'individual essence' is possessed uniquely by a particular object [Rami] |
10939 | 'Sortal essentialism' says being a particular kind is what is essential [Rami] |
10934 | Unlosable properties are not the same as essential properties [Rami] |
10933 | Physical possibility is part of metaphysical possibility which is part of logical possibility [Rami] |
10932 | If it is possible 'for all I know' then it is 'epistemically possible' [Rami] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
9425 | Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |