14 ideas
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
9111 | God is not wise, but more-than-wise; God is not good, but more-than-good [William of Ockham] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
9112 | We could never form a concept of God's wisdom if we couldn't abstract it from creatures [William of Ockham] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |