7 ideas
16463 | Adams says actual things have haecceities, but not things that only might exist [Adams,RM, by Stalnaker] |
13432 | The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz] |
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] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
12696 | Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz] |