10 ideas
14221 | Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities [Shalkowski] |
13230 | Particular essence is often captured by generality [Steiner,M] |
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] |
13229 | Maybe an instance of a generalisation is more explanatory than the particular case [Steiner,M] |
13231 | Explanatory proofs rest on 'characterizing properties' of entities or structure [Steiner,M] |
14224 | Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection [Shalkowski] |
19399 | Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz] |