22 ideas
11181 | Aristotelian essentialism involves a 'natural' or 'causal' interpretation of modal operators [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11184 | Aristotelian essentialism is about shared properties, individuating essentialism about distinctive properties [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11180 | Essentialist sentences are not theorems of modal logic, and can even be false [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11186 | 'Essentially' won't replace 'necessarily' for vacuous properties like snub-nosed or self-identical [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11185 | 'Is essentially' has a different meaning from 'is necessarily', as they often cannot be substituted [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11182 | If essences are objects with only essential properties, they are elusive in possible worlds [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11183 | The use of possible worlds is to sort properties (not to individuate objects) [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11187 | In possible worlds, names are just neutral unvarying pegs for truths and predicates [Marcus (Barcan)] |
7352 | Jesus said learning was unnecessary, and only the spirit of the Law was needed [Jesus, by Johnson,P] |
6289 | Love your enemies [Jesus] |
6292 | Love thy neighbour as thyself [Jesus] |
5356 | Treat others as you would have them treat you [Jesus] |
6286 | Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy [Jesus] |
6290 | Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter heaven [Jesus] |
6287 | If you lust after a woman, you have committed adultery [Jesus] |
6285 | Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth [Jesus] |
6288 | Don't resist evil, but turn the other cheek [Jesus] |
6293 | It is almost impossible for the rich to go to heaven [Jesus] |
20723 | Only when working people are poor do they remain obedient to God [Calvin, by Weber] |
11189 | Dispositional essences are special, as if an object loses them they cease to exist [Marcus (Barcan)] |
6291 | No one is good except God [Jesus] |
7351 | Jesus turned the ideas of Hillel into a theology reduced to its moral elements [Jesus, by Johnson,P] |