12 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] |
13795 | Properties only have identity in the context of their contraries [Elder] |
13798 | Maybe we should give up the statue [Elder] |
13918 | Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe] |
13797 | The loss of an essential property means the end of an existence [Elder] |
13921 | All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe] |
13796 | Essential properties are bound together, and would be lost together [Elder] |
13794 | Essential properties by nature occur in clusters or packages [Elder] |
13922 | Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe] |
13920 | Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe] |
9220 | Lewis must specify that all possibilities are in his worlds, making the whole thing circular [Shalkowski, by Sider] |