10 ideas
22708 | Good reasons must give way to better [Shakespeare] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
8443 | Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
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] |
20304 | The cause of my action is in my will [Shakespeare] |
8442 | What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa] |
8444 | Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa] |
8445 | The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa] |