10 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
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] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |