17 ideas
11178 | The essence or definition of an essence involves either a class of properties or a class of propositions [Fine,K] |
11970 | Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan] |
11175 | Logical concepts rest on certain inferences, not on facts about implications [Fine,K] |
11176 | The property of Property Abstraction says any suitable condition must imply a property [Fine,K] |
11174 | A logical truth is true in virtue of the nature of the logical concepts [Fine,K] |
11969 | Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan] |
11177 | Can the essence of an object circularly involve itself, or involve another object? [Fine,K] |
11173 | Being a man is a consequence of his essence, not constitutive of it [Fine,K] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
11179 | If there are alternative definitions, then we have three possibilities for essence [Fine,K] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
11971 | The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan] |
11973 | Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan] |
11972 | Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan] |
11967 | Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan] |
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] |