8 ideas
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
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] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |