10 ideas
12766 | Logical space is abstracted from the actual world [Stalnaker] |
15453 | The main rivals to universals are resemblance or natural-class nominalism, or sparse trope theory [Lewis] |
15452 | We could not uphold a truthmaker for 'Fa' without structures [Lewis] |
12764 | For the bare particular view, properties must be features, not just groups of objects [Stalnaker] |
15990 | Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke] |
12761 | An essential property is one had in all the possible worlds where a thing exists [Stalnaker] |
12763 | Necessarily self-identical, or being what it is, or its world-indexed properties, aren't essential [Stalnaker] |
12762 | Bare particular anti-essentialism makes no sense within modal logic semantics [Stalnaker] |
12765 | Why imagine that Babe Ruth might be a billiard ball; nothing useful could be said about the ball [Stalnaker] |
15994 | If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke] |