8 ideas
18281 | In mathematics everything is algorithm and nothing is meaning [Wittgenstein] |
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] |
6606 | Consider: "Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful" [Wittgenstein] |
3284 | There is no one theory of how to act (or what to believe) [Nagel] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |