12 ideas
18946 | Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer] |
10938 | The extremes of essentialism are that all properties are essential, or only very trivial ones [Rami] |
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
10940 | An 'individual essence' is possessed uniquely by a particular object [Rami] |
10939 | 'Sortal essentialism' says being a particular kind is what is essential [Rami] |
10934 | Unlosable properties are not the same as essential properties [Rami] |
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] |
10933 | Physical possibility is part of metaphysical possibility which is part of logical possibility [Rami] |
10932 | If it is possible 'for all I know' then it is 'epistemically possible' [Rami] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |