18 ideas
| 9777 | Kant was the first philosopher [Zizek] |
| 9778 | There is no dialogue in philosophy [Zizek] |
| 9779 | Philosophy is transcendental questioning (not supporting science or constructing ontology) [Zizek] |
| 5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
| 11181 | Aristotelian essentialism involves a 'natural' or 'causal' interpretation of modal operators [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 11184 | Aristotelian essentialism is about shared properties, individuating essentialism about distinctive properties [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 11180 | Essentialist sentences are not theorems of modal logic, and can even be false [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 11186 | 'Essentially' won't replace 'necessarily' for vacuous properties like snub-nosed or self-identical [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 11185 | 'Is essentially' has a different meaning from 'is necessarily', as they often cannot be substituted [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 11182 | If essences are objects with only essential properties, they are elusive in possible worlds [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 11183 | The use of possible worlds is to sort properties (not to individuate objects) [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 11187 | In possible worlds, names are just neutral unvarying pegs for truths and predicates [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
| 9780 | Consciousness is a malfunction of evolution [Zizek] |
| 5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
| 9781 | Tolerance and love are strategies to avoid encountering our neighbours [Zizek] |
| 11189 | Dispositional essences are special, as if an object loses them they cease to exist [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |