7 ideas
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
13952 | Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R] |
13954 | The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R] |
13955 | Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R] |
8970 | Our notion of identical sets involves identical members, which needs absolute identity [Hawthorne] |
13953 | An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |