8 ideas
14633 | How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson] |
14635 | An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson] |
14632 | Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson] |
490 | Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus] |
14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |