13 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
13804 | A property is essential iff the object would not exist if it lacked that property [Forbes,G] |
13805 | Properties are trivially essential if they are not grounded in a thing's specific nature [Forbes,G] |
13808 | A relation is essential to two items if it holds in every world where they exist [Forbes,G] |
13806 | Trivially essential properties are existence, self-identity, and de dicto necessities [Forbes,G] |
13807 | A property is 'extraneously essential' if it is had only because of the properties of other objects [Forbes,G] |
13809 | One might be essentialist about the original bronze from which a statue was made [Forbes,G] |
12732 | Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz] |
13810 | The source of de dicto necessity is not concepts, but the actual properties of the thing [Forbes,G] |
19438 | Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
19415 | Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz] |
19439 | God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz] |