13 ideas
| 22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
| 5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
| 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] |
| 5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
| 20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
| 5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
| 14224 | Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection [Shalkowski] |
| 15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |
| 5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |