10 ideas
13952 | Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R] |
14633 | How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson] |
14635 | An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson] |
13954 | The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R] |
14632 | Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson] |
13955 | Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R] |
13953 | An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
23812 | Force is what turns man into a thing, and ultimately into a corpse [Weil] |
23813 | Only people who understand force, and don't respect it, are capable of justice [Weil] |