20 ideas
11115 | 'All horses' either picks out the horses, or the things which are horses [Jubien] |
8967 | Not all predicates can be properties - 'is non-self-exemplifying', for example [Lowe] |
11116 | Being a physical object is our most fundamental category [Jubien] |
8965 | Neither mere matter nor pure form can individuate a sphere, so it must be a combination [Lowe] |
11117 | Haecceities implausibly have no qualities [Jubien] |
11119 | De re necessity is just de dicto necessity about object-essences [Jubien] |
11118 | Modal propositions transcend the concrete, but not the actual [Jubien] |
11108 | Your properties, not some other world, decide your possibilities [Jubien] |
11111 | Modal truths are facts about parts of this world, not about remote maximal entities [Jubien] |
11109 | If other worlds exist, then they are scattered parts of the actual world [Jubien] |
11106 | If all possible worlds just happened to include stars, their existence would be necessary [Jubien] |
11112 | Possible worlds just give parallel contingencies, with no explanation at all of necessity [Jubien] |
11113 | Worlds don't explain necessity; we use necessity to decide on possible worlds [Jubien] |
11105 | We have no idea how many 'possible worlds' there might be [Jubien] |
11107 | If there are no other possible worlds, do we then exist necessarily? [Jubien] |
11110 | We mustn't confuse a similar person with the same person [Jubien] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
8968 | If the flagpole causally explains the shadow, the shadow cannot explain the flagpole [Lowe] |
8966 | Properties are facets of objects, only discussable separately by an act of abstraction [Lowe] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |