8 ideas
17962 | The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest] |
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] |
15432 | Structural universals might serve as possible worlds [Forrest, by Lewis] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |