57 ideas
| 18290 | But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek? [Nietzsche] |
| 18303 | Reject wisdom that lacks laughter [Nietzsche] |
| 13734 | Modern Quinean metaphysics is about what exists, but Aristotelian metaphysics asks about grounding [Schaffer,J] |
| 13751 | If you tore the metaphysics out of philosophy, the whole enterprise would collapse [Schaffer,J] |
| 15169 | Metaphysics is clarifying how we speak and think (and possibly improving it) [Sidelle] |
| 13743 | We should not multiply basic entities, but we can have as many derivative entities as we like [Schaffer,J] |
| 15164 | We seem to base necessities on thought experiments and imagination [Sidelle] |
| 18305 | To love truth, you must know how to lie [Nietzsche] |
| 13741 | If 'there are red roses' implies 'there are roses', then 'there are prime numbers' implies 'there are numbers' [Schaffer,J] |
| 13748 | Grounding is unanalysable and primitive, and is the basic structuring concept in metaphysics [Schaffer,J] |
| 13747 | Supervenience is just modal correlation [Schaffer,J] |
| 13744 | The cosmos is the only fundamental entity, from which all else exists by abstraction [Schaffer,J] |
| 13739 | Maybe categories are just the different ways that things depend on basic substances [Schaffer,J] |
| 15180 | There doesn't seem to be anything in the actual world that can determine modal facts [Sidelle] |
| 13742 | There exist heaps with no integral unity, so we should accept arbitrary composites in the same way [Schaffer,J] |
| 13752 | The notion of 'grounding' can explain integrated wholes in a way that mere aggregates can't [Schaffer,J] |
| 15184 | Causal reference presupposes essentialism if it refers to modally extended entities [Sidelle] |
| 15172 | Clearly, essential predications express necessary properties [Sidelle] |
| 15181 | Being a deepest explanatory feature is an actual, not a modal property [Sidelle] |
| 15173 | That the essence of water is its microstructure is a convention, not a discovery [Sidelle] |
| 15185 | We aren't clear about 'same stuff as this', so a principle of individuation is needed to identify it [Sidelle] |
| 15175 | Evaluation of de dicto modalities does not depend on the identity of its objects [Sidelle] |
| 15032 | Necessary a posteriori is conventional for necessity and nonmodal for a posteriority [Sidelle, by Sider] |
| 15179 | To know empirical necessities, we need empirical facts, plus conventions about which are necessary [Sidelle] |
| 15171 | The necessary a posteriori is statements either of identity or of essence [Sidelle] |
| 15167 | Empiricism explores necessities and concept-limits by imagining negations of truths [Sidelle] |
| 15177 | Contradictoriness limits what is possible and what is imaginable [Sidelle] |
| 13749 | Belief in impossible worlds may require dialetheism [Schaffer,J] |
| 15176 | The individuals and kinds involved in modality are also a matter of convention [Sidelle] |
| 15174 | A thing doesn't need transworld identity prior to rigid reference - that could be a convention of the reference [Sidelle] |
| 15183 | 'Dthat' operates to make a singular term into a rigid term [Sidelle] |
| 13740 | 'Moorean certainties' are more credible than any sceptical argument [Schaffer,J] |
| 15165 | A priori knowledge is entirely of analytic truths [Sidelle] |
| 20757 | The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body [Nietzsche] |
| 18289 | Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body [Nietzsche] |
| 15168 | That water is essentially H2O in some way concerns how we use 'water' [Sidelle] |
| 15166 | Causal reference seems to get directly at the object, thus leaving its nature open [Sidelle] |
| 15182 | Because some entities overlap, reference must have analytic individuation principles [Sidelle] |
| 18299 | The will is constantly frustrated by the past [Nietzsche] |
| 18297 | We created meanings, to maintain ourselves [Nietzsche] |
| 18293 | The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old [Nietzsche] |
| 18301 | We only really love children and work [Nietzsche] |
| 18307 | I want my work, not happiness! [Nietzsche] |
| 18291 | Virtues can destroy one another, through jealousy [Nietzsche] |
| 18287 | People now find both wealth and poverty too much of a burden [Nietzsche] |
| 18295 | If you want friends, you must be a fighter [Nietzsche] |
| 18286 | The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue [Nietzsche] |
| 18296 | An enduring people needs its own individual values [Nietzsche] |
| 18294 | The state coldly claims that it is the people, but that is a lie [Nietzsche] |
| 18304 | Saints want to live as they desire, or not to live at all [Nietzsche] |
| 18300 | Whenever we have seen suffering, we have wanted the revenge of punishment [Nietzsche] |
| 18302 | Man and woman are deeply strange to one another! [Nietzsche] |
| 15178 | Can anything in science reveal the necessity of what it discovers? [Sidelle] |
| 18292 | I can only believe in a God who can dance [Nietzsche] |
| 18298 | There can't be gods, because that leaves us nothing to create! [Nietzsche] |
| 18306 | We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth [Nietzsche] |
| 18288 | Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying [Nietzsche] |