9 ideas
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] |
5040 | Necessary truths can be analysed into original truths; contingent truths are infinitely analysable [Leibniz] |
13159 | Only God sees contingent truths a priori [Leibniz] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
5039 | If non-existents are possible, their existence would replace what now exists, which cannot therefore be necessary [Leibniz] |
6901 | Understanding is needed for imagination, just as much as the other way around [Betteridge] |
5041 | God does everything in a perfect way, and never acts contrary to reason [Leibniz] |