12 ideas
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
10529 | If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K] |
10530 | Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K] |
10938 | The extremes of essentialism are that all properties are essential, or only very trivial ones [Rami] |
15990 | Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke] |
10940 | An 'individual essence' is possessed uniquely by a particular object [Rami] |
10939 | 'Sortal essentialism' says being a particular kind is what is essential [Rami] |
10934 | Unlosable properties are not the same as essential properties [Rami] |
10933 | Physical possibility is part of metaphysical possibility which is part of logical possibility [Rami] |
10932 | If it is possible 'for all I know' then it is 'epistemically possible' [Rami] |
15994 | If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |