9 ideas
| 20728 | Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin] |
| 20726 | We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality [Colvin] |
| 20727 | Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life [Colvin] |
| 20730 | If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin] |
| 20729 | Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin] |
| 20731 | The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin] |
| 13095 | Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz] |
| 4577 | There is no necessity higher than natural necessity, and that is just regularity [Quine] |
| 2117 | The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz] |