12 ideas
13917 | Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe] |
13919 | Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe] |
14713 | Truth in a scenario is the negation in that scenario being a priori incoherent [Chalmers] |
13918 | Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
13921 | All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe] |
13922 | Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe] |
13920 | Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
14712 | A sentence is a priori if no possible way the world might actually be could make it false [Chalmers] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |