6 ideas
16640 | Form is the principle that connects a thing's constitution (rather than being operative) [Hill,N] |
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] |
14632 | Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
6552 | You can only explain the qualities of large objects using entities which lack those qualities [Heisenberg] |