8 ideas
2626 | A philosopher is outside any community of ideas [Wittgenstein] |
9218 | Maybe what distinguishes philosophy from science is its pursuit of necessary truths [Sider] |
6569 | 'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin] |
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
3790 | Causes of beliefs are irrelevant to their contents [Wittgenstein] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |