42 ideas
6814 | Instead of prayer and charity, sinners pursue vain disputes and want their own personal scripture [Mohammed] |
11897 | A principle of individuation may pinpoint identity and distinctness, now and over time [Mackie,P] |
11898 | Individuation may include counterfactual possibilities, as well as identity and persistence [Mackie,P] |
11883 | A haecceity is the essential, simple, unanalysable property of being-this-thing [Mackie,P] |
11889 | Essentialism must avoid both reduplication of essences, and multiple occupancy by essences [Mackie,P] |
11877 | An individual essence is the properties the object could not exist without [Mackie,P] |
11882 | No other object can possibly have the same individual essence as some object [Mackie,P] |
11886 | There are problems both with individual essences and without them [Mackie,P] |
11909 | Unlike Hesperus=Phosophorus, water=H2O needs further premisses before it is necessary [Mackie,P] |
11899 | Why are any sortals essential, and why are only some of them essential? [Mackie,P] |
11906 | The Kripke and Putnam view of kinds makes them explanatorily basic, but has modal implications [Mackie,P] |
11894 | Origin is not a necessity, it is just 'tenacious'; we keep it fixed in counterfactual discussions [Mackie,P] |
11887 | Transworld identity without individual essences leads to 'bare identities' [Mackie,P] |
11890 | De re modality without bare identities or individual essence needs counterparts [Mackie,P] |
11892 | Things may only be counterparts under some particular relation [Mackie,P] |
11893 | Possibilities for Caesar must be based on some phase of the real Caesar [Mackie,P] |
11884 | The theory of 'haecceitism' does not need commitment to individual haecceities [Mackie,P] |
11905 | Locke's kind essences are explanatory, without being necessary to the kind [Mackie,P] |
7258 | The forefather of modern intuitionism is Richard Price [Price,R, by Dancy,J] |
6823 | Repay evil with good and your enemies will become friends (though this is hard) [Mohammed] |
6828 | You may break off a treaty if you fear treachery from your ally [Mohammed] |
6826 | Allah rewards those who are devout, sincere, patient, humble, charitable, chaste, and who fast [Mohammed] |
6822 | Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt [Mohammed] |
6833 | Punish theft in men or women by cutting off their hands [Mohammed] |
6825 | Do not kill except for a just cause [Mohammed] |
6832 | Killing a human, except as just punishment, is like killing all mankind [Mohammed] |
11907 | Maybe the identity of kinds is necessary, but instances being of that kind is not [Mackie,P] |
6811 | Allah is lord of creation, compassionate, merciful, king of judgement-day [Mohammed] |
6819 | True believers see that Allah made the night for rest and the day to give light [Mohammed] |
6818 | Allah cannot have begotten a son, as He is self-sufficient [Mohammed] |
6829 | There shall be no compulsion in religion [Mohammed] |
6834 | Unbelievers try to interpret the ambiguous parts of the Koran, simply to create dissension [Mohammed] |
6817 | The Koran is certainly composed by Allah; no one could compose a chapter like it [Mohammed] |
6824 | Do not split into sects, exulting in separate beliefs [Mohammed] |
6821 | I created mankind that it might worship Me [Mohammed] |
6815 | Be patient with unbelievers, and leave them to the judgement of Allah [Mohammed] |
6831 | He that kills a believer by design shall burn in Hell for ever [Mohammed] |
6827 | Make war on the unbelievers until Allah's religion reigns supreme [Mohammed] |
6820 | The righteous shall dwell on couches in gardens, wedded to dark-eyed houris [Mohammed] |
6812 | Heaven will be reclining on couches, eating fruit, attended by virgins [Mohammed] |
6830 | Unbelievers will have their skin repeatedly burned off in hell [Mohammed] |
6816 | The unbelievers shall drink boiling water [Mohammed] |