7 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 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] |
| 22308 | Only the actual exists, so possibilities always reduce to actuality after full analysis [Russell] |
| 14631 | How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |