9 ideas
594 | Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle] |
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] |
14644 | If my conception of pain derives from me, it is a contradiction to speak of another's pain [Malcolm] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
1422 | God's existence is either necessary or impossible, and no one has shown that the concept of God is contradictory [Malcolm] |
2632 | Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero] |