7 ideas
18902 | Correspondence theories can't tell you what truths correspond to [Davidson] |
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] |
18284 | Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |