10 ideas
16030 | 'Nominal' definitions identify things, but fail to give their essence [Jones,J-E] |
12714 | The substantial form is the principle of action or the primitive force of acting [Leibniz] |
12743 | A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject [Leibniz] |
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] |