8 ideas
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
21227 | The Cogito demands a bridge to the world, and ends in isolating the ego [Velarde-Mayol] |
21215 | The representation may not be a likeness [Velarde-Mayol] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
15666 | To understand language is to know how to use it to reach shared understandings [Habermas] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |
21219 | Find the essence by varying an object, to see what remains invariable [Velarde-Mayol] |