12 ideas
13795 | Properties only have identity in the context of their contraries [Elder] |
13798 | Maybe we should give up the statue [Elder] |
13797 | The loss of an essential property means the end of an existence [Elder] |
11993 | Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung] |
11997 | A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung] |
11992 | Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung] |
13796 | Essential properties are bound together, and would be lost together [Elder] |
13794 | Essential properties by nature occur in clusters or packages [Elder] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
11995 | Some peripheral properties are explained by essential ones, but don't themselves explain properties [Kung] |
11996 | Some non-essential properties may explain more than essential-but-peripheral ones do [Kung] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |