10 ideas
22764 | Ordinary speech is not exact about what is true; we say we are digging a well before the well exists [Sext.Empiricus] |
6564 | To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine] |
22762 | Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body [Sext.Empiricus] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
22759 | Fools, infants and madmen may speak truly, but do not know [Sext.Empiricus] |
22760 | Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
22763 | We can only dream of a winged man if we have experienced men and some winged thing [Sext.Empiricus] |
16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |