14 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 24069 | Much metaphysical debate concerns what is fundamental, rather than what exists [Koslicki] |
| 9175 | We may fix the reference of 'Cicero' by a description, but thereafter the name is rigid [Kripke] |
| 9171 | The function of names is simply to refer [Kripke] |
| 24065 | Structured wholes are united by the teamwork needed for their capacities [Koslicki] |
| 24066 | The form explains kind, structure, unity and activity [Koslicki] |
| 24067 | Hylomorphic compounds need an individual form for transworld identity [Koslicki] |
| 9174 | It is necessary that this table is not made of ice, but we don't know it a priori [Kripke] |
| 9172 | A 'rigid designator' designates the same object in all possible worlds [Kripke] |
| 9173 | We cannot say that Nixon might have been a different man from the one he actually was [Kripke] |
| 9176 | Modal statements about this table never refer to counterparts; that confuses epistemology and metaphysics [Kripke] |
| 9177 | Identity theorists must deny that pains can be imagined without brain states [Kripke] |
| 9178 | Pain, unlike heat, is picked out by an essential property [Kripke] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |