11 ideas
| 16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
| 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] |
| 22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
| 22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
| 22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
| 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] |