Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Speussipus, Amphis and Alan McMichael

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8 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

594	Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]

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Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

3032	I can form no notion of what the good is [Amphis]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals

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Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

2632	Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero]