Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'Making It Explicit' and 'Letter to Bramhall'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

4 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts

10355

Facts can't make claims true, because they are true claims [Brandom, by Kusch]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

16620

A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form [Hobbes]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

16622

Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances [Hobbes]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

19216

Propositions (such as 'that dog is barking') only exist if their items exist [Williamson]