12 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
8132 | We now have a much more sophisticated understanding of logical form in language [Burge] |
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] |
8126 | Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge] |
8127 | Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge] |
8129 | Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge [Burge] |
8131 | Some qualities of experience, like blurred vision, have no function at all [Burge] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |