37 ideas
13786 | Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works [Plato] |
13780 | Good people are no different from wise ones [Plato] |
13778 | A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions [Plato] |
13776 | Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not [Plato] |
13777 | A name is a sort of tool [Plato] |
13790 | A name-giver might misname something, then force other names to conform to it [Plato] |
13791 | Things must be known before they are named, so it can't be the names that give us knowledge [Plato] |
13789 | Anyone who knows a thing's name also knows the thing [Plato] |
2063 | How can beauty have identity if it changes? [Plato] |
6402 | In 1927, Russell analysed force and matter in terms of events [Russell, by Grayling] |
13775 | We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly [Plato] |
14732 | A perceived physical object is events grouped around a centre [Russell] |
12132 | Indiscernibility is a necessary and sufficient condition for identity [Brody] |
13787 | Doesn't each thing have an essence, just as it has other qualities? [Plato] |
15834 | Brody bases sortal essentialism on properties required throughout something's existence [Brody, by Mackie,P] |
14733 | An object produces the same percepts with or without a substance, so that is irrelevant to science [Russell] |
12140 | Modern emphasis is on properties had essentially; traditional emphasis is on sort-defining properties [Brody] |
13774 | Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence [Plato] |
11895 | A sortal essence is a property which once possessed always possessed [Brody, by Mackie,P] |
12141 | Maybe essential properties are those which determine a natural kind? [Brody] |
12137 | De re essentialism standardly says all possible objects identical with a have a's essential properties [Brody] |
12142 | Essentially, a has P, always had P, must have had P, and has never had a future without P [Brody] |
12143 | An object having a property essentially is equivalent to its having it necessarily [Brody] |
12144 | Essentialism is justified if the essential properties of things explain their other properties [Brody] |
12139 | Mereological essentialism says that every part that ensures the existence is essential [Brody] |
13772 | Is the being or essence of each thing private to each person? [Plato] |
12135 | Interrupted objects have two first moments of existence, which could be two beginnings [Brody] |
13788 | If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses [Plato] |
12130 | a and b share all properties; so they share being-identical-with-a; so a = b [Brody] |
12138 | Identity across possible worlds is prior to rigid designation [Brody] |
6418 | Russell rejected phenomenalism because it couldn't account for causal relations [Russell, by Grayling] |
13792 | There can't be any knowledge if things are constantly changing [Plato] |
13781 | Soul causes the body to live, and gives it power to breathe and to be revitalized [Plato] |
13785 | 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul [Plato] |
21706 | At first matter is basic and known by sense-data; later Russell says matter is constructed [Russell, by Linsky,B] |
13779 | The natural offspring of a lion is called a 'lion' (but what about the offspring of a king?) [Plato] |
13783 | Even the gods love play [Plato] |