8 ideas
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] |
6171 | Beliefs are states of the head that explain behaviour, and also items with referential truth-conditions [McGinn] |
13550 | To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca] |
13549 | Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca] |
13548 | The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca] |