8 ideas
| 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] |
| 20328 | A thing is only seen as art in an 'artworld', which has a theory and a history [Danto] |
| 20441 | An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto] |
| 14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
| 1558 | Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus] |