9 ideas
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
13095 | Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz] |
11993 | Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung] |
11997 | A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung] |
11992 | Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung] |
11995 | Some peripheral properties are explained by essential ones, but don't themselves explain properties [Kung] |
11996 | Some non-essential properties may explain more than essential-but-peripheral ones do [Kung] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
2117 | The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz] |