10 ideas
| 14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
| 14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
| 14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
| 14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
| 14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
| 14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
| 19739 | The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant] |
| 14806 | If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce] |
| 14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
| 14803 | The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce] |