9 ideas
19400 | Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz] |
19401 | God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz] |
14082 | No sortal could ever exactly pin down which set of particles count as this 'cup' [Schaffer,J] |
14633 | How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson] |
14635 | An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson] |
14632 | Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson] |
14081 | Identities can be true despite indeterminate reference, if true under all interpretations [Schaffer,J] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
19402 | The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz] |