10 ideas
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
21386 | We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
14051 | A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus] |
1828 | God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus] |