10 ideas
| 22320 | An 'object' is just what can be referred to without possible non-existence [Wittgenstein] |
| 14221 | Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities [Shalkowski] |
| 14222 | Essences are what it is to be that (kind of) thing - in fact, they are the thing's identity [Shalkowski] |
| 14226 | We distinguish objects by their attributes, not by their essences [Shalkowski] |
| 14225 | Critics say that essences are too mysterious to be known [Shalkowski] |
| 8970 | Our notion of identical sets involves identical members, which needs absolute identity [Hawthorne] |
| 14223 | De dicto necessity has linguistic entities as their source, so it is a type of de re necessity [Shalkowski] |
| 18283 | Language pictures the essence of the world [Wittgenstein] |
| 18282 | You can't believe it if you can't imagine a verification for it [Wittgenstein] |
| 14224 | Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection [Shalkowski] |