16 ideas
13917 | Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe] |
13919 | Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe] |
21566 | 'Propositional functions' are ambiguous until the variable is given a value [Russell] |
21567 | 'All judgements made by Epimenedes are true' needs the judgements to be of the same type [Russell] |
23457 | Type theory cannot identify features across levels (because such predicates break the rules) [Morris,M on Russell] |
21556 | Classes are defined by propositional functions, and functions are typed, with an axiom of reducibility [Russell, by Lackey] |
21568 | A one-variable function is only 'predicative' if it is one order above its arguments [Russell] |
13918 | Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe] |
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
13921 | All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
13922 | Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
13920 | Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |