8 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] |
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] |
21798 | To universalise 'give everything to the poor' leads to absurdity [Hegel] |
21797 | Immortality does not come at a later time, but when pure knowing Spirit fully grasps the universal [Hegel] |