9 ideas
| 9216 | Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K] |
| 16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
| 9214 | Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K] |
| 16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
| 13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
| 9215 | Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K] |
| 16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
| 16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |
| 20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |