10 ideas
| 18261 | A simplification which is complete constitutes a definition [Kant] |
| 15549 | If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker? [Lewis] |
| 22275 | Logic gives us the necessary rules which show us how we ought to think [Kant] |
| 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] |
| 18260 | If we knew what we know, we would be astonished [Kant] |
| 14224 | Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection [Shalkowski] |