6 ideas
18465 | An 'equivalence' relation is one which is reflexive, symmetric and transitive [Kunen] |
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] |
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |