20 ideas
20109 | Hegel inserted society and history between the God-world, man-nature, man-being binary pairs [Hegel, by Safranski] |
9148 | I think of variables as objects rather than as signs [Fine,K] |
11976 | Aristotelian essentialism says essences are not relative to specification [Lewis] |
11978 | Causal necessities hold in all worlds compatible with the laws of nature [Lewis] |
11979 | It doesn't take the whole of a possible Humphrey to win the election [Lewis] |
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] |
9152 | If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things [Fine,K] |
9149 | To obtain the number 2 by abstraction, we only want to abstract the distinctness of a pair of objects [Fine,K] |
9150 | We should define abstraction in general, with number abstraction taken as a special case [Fine,K] |
9146 | After abstraction all numbers seem identical, so only 0 and 1 will exist! [Fine,K] |
23274 | World history has no room for happiness [Hegel] |
23275 | The state of nature is one of untamed brutality [Hegel] |
23276 | The soul of the people is an organisation of its members which produces an essential unity [Hegel] |
23272 | The human race matters, and individuals have little importance [Hegel] |
23273 | In a good state the goal of the citizens and of the whole state are united [Hegel] |
23271 | The goal of the world is Spirit's consciousness and enactment of freedom [Hegel] |
23270 | We should all agree that there is reason in history [Hegel] |