9 ideas
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
14082 | No sortal could ever exactly pin down which set of particles count as this 'cup' [Schaffer,J] |
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
14081 | Identities can be true despite indeterminate reference, if true under all interpretations [Schaffer,J] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |