9 ideas
16210 | Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis] |
11993 | Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung] |
11997 | A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung] |
11992 | Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung] |
11995 | Some peripheral properties are explained by essential ones, but don't themselves explain properties [Kung] |
11996 | Some non-essential properties may explain more than essential-but-peripheral ones do [Kung] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
9426 | The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |