8 ideas
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] |
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] |
7319 | If we give up synonymy, we have to give up significance, meaning and sense [Grice/Strawson] |