8 ideas
21757 | Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel] |
18469 | God might necessitate that something happen, but He is not the truth-maker for it [Smith,B] |
14221 | Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities [Shalkowski] |
14222 | Essences are what it is to be that (kind of) thing - in fact, they are the thing's identity [Shalkowski] |
14226 | We distinguish objects by their attributes, not by their essences [Shalkowski] |
14225 | Critics say that essences are too mysterious to be known [Shalkowski] |
14223 | De dicto necessity has linguistic entities as their source, so it is a type of de re necessity [Shalkowski] |
14224 | Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection [Shalkowski] |