31 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] |
17311 | Real definitions don't just single out a thing; they must also explain its essence [Koslicki] |
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] |
17312 | It is more explanatory if you show how a number is constructed from basic entities and relations [Koslicki] |
2063 | How can beauty have identity if it changes? [Plato] |
17314 | The relata of grounding are propositions or facts, but for dependence it is objects and their features [Koslicki] |
13775 | We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly [Plato] |
13787 | Doesn't each thing have an essence, just as it has other qualities? [Plato] |
17313 | Modern views want essences just to individuate things across worlds and times [Koslicki] |
13774 | Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence [Plato] |
17309 | For Fine, essences are propositions true because of identity, so they are just real definitions [Koslicki] |
17315 | We need a less propositional view of essence, and so must distinguish it clearly from real definitions [Koslicki] |
13772 | Is the being or essence of each thing private to each person? [Plato] |
13788 | If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses [Plato] |
12732 | Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz] |
13792 | There can't be any knowledge if things are constantly changing [Plato] |
17317 | A good explanation captures the real-world dependence among the phenomena [Koslicki] |
13781 | Soul causes the body to live, and gives it power to breathe and to be revitalized [Plato] |
19438 | Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz] |
19415 | Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz] |
17316 | We can abstract to a dependent entity by blocking out features of its bearer [Koslicki] |
13785 | 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul [Plato] |
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] |
19439 | God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz] |