8 ideas
15785 | Our commitments are to an 'ontology', but also to an 'ideology', or conceptual system [Hintikka] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
15786 | Commitment to possible worlds is part of our ideology, not part of our ontology [Hintikka] |
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] |
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] |