15 ideas
14092 | Philosophers are often too fussy about words, dismissing perfectly useful ordinary terms [Rosen] |
14100 | Figuring in the definition of a thing doesn't make it a part of that thing [Rosen] |
5637 | Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton] |
14096 | Explanations fail to be monotonic [Rosen] |
14097 | Things could be true 'in virtue of' others as relations between truths, or between truths and items [Rosen] |
14095 | Facts are structures of worldly items, rather like sentences, individuated by their ingredients [Rosen] |
14093 | An 'intrinsic' property is one that depends on a thing and its parts, and not on its relations [Rosen] |
14094 | The excellent notion of metaphysical 'necessity' cannot be defined [Rosen] |
14101 | Are necessary truths rooted in essences, or also in basic grounding laws? [Rosen] |
5636 | Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton] |
14099 | 'Bachelor' consists in or reduces to 'unmarried' male, but not the other way around [Rosen] |
5660 | Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton] |
19945 | Jew and Greeks, bond and free, male and female, are all one in Christ [Paul] |
5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |
14098 | An acid is just a proton donor [Rosen] |