6 ideas
| 8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
| 17093 | Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon] |
| 17492 | Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon] |
| 8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
| 8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
| 20130 | It is absurd to think you can change your own essence, like a garment [Nietzsche] |