15 ideas
14092 | Philosophers are often too fussy about words, dismissing perfectly useful ordinary terms [Rosen] |
14100 | Figuring in the definition of a thing doesn't make it a part of that thing [Rosen] |
14096 | Explanations fail to be monotonic [Rosen] |
14097 | Things could be true 'in virtue of' others as relations between truths, or between truths and items [Rosen] |
14095 | Facts are structures of worldly items, rather like sentences, individuated by their ingredients [Rosen] |
14093 | An 'intrinsic' property is one that depends on a thing and its parts, and not on its relations [Rosen] |
12251 | Substantial forms are not understood, and explain nothing [Descartes] |
14094 | The excellent notion of metaphysical 'necessity' cannot be defined [Rosen] |
14101 | Are necessary truths rooted in essences, or also in basic grounding laws? [Rosen] |
14099 | 'Bachelor' consists in or reduces to 'unmarried' male, but not the other way around [Rosen] |
5049 | Intelligent pleasure is the perception of beauty, order and perfection [Leibniz] |
14098 | An acid is just a proton donor [Rosen] |
5048 | Perfection is simply quantity of reality [Leibniz] |
16772 | An angelic mind would not experience pain, even when connected to a human body [Descartes, by Pasnau] |
5050 | Evil serves a greater good, and pain is necessary for higher pleasure [Leibniz] |