6 ideas
14633 | How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson] |
14635 | An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson] |
14632 | Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
6649 | Chomsky now says concepts are basically innate, as well as syntax [Chomsky, by Lowe] |
22251 | Liberalism may fail because it neglects the shared nature of what we pursue and protect [Haldane] |