24 ideas
11115 | 'All horses' either picks out the horses, or the things which are horses [Jubien] |
11116 | Being a physical object is our most fundamental category [Jubien] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
11109 | If other worlds exist, then they are scattered parts of the actual world [Jubien] |
11113 | Worlds don't explain necessity; we use necessity to decide on possible worlds [Jubien] |
11110 | We mustn't confuse a similar person with the same person [Jubien] |
23429 | The environment needs localised politics, with its care for the land [Dobson] |
23424 | An ideology judges things now, and offers an ideal, with a strategy for reaching it [Dobson] |
23426 | Ecologism is often non-liberal, by claiming to know other people's best interests [Dobson] |
23427 | Socialism can be productive and centralised, or less productive and decentralised [Dobson] |
23428 | Difference feminists say women differ fundamentally from men [Dobson] |
23422 | For the environment, affluence and technology matter as much as population size [Dobson] |
23425 | Ecologism says growth must be reduced, and efficiency is not enough [Dobson] |
23430 | A million years is a proper unit of political time [Dobson] |
23423 | We currently value the present fourteen times more highly than the future [Dobson] |
19399 | Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz] |