9 ideas
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
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] |
21513 | We can no more expect a precise definition of coherence than we can of the moral ideal [Ewing] |
21497 | If undetailed, 'coherence' is just a vague words that covers all possible arguments [Ewing] |
18671 | The ground for an attitude is not a thing's 'goodness', but its concrete characteristics [Ewing] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |