14 ideas
| 14650 | Maybe proper names involve essentialism [Plantinga] |
| 14648 | Could I name all of the real numbers in one fell swoop? Call them all 'Charley'? [Plantinga] |
| 14647 | Surely self-identity is essential to Socrates? [Plantinga] |
| 14646 | An object has a property essentially if it couldn't conceivably have lacked it [Plantinga] |
| 14649 | Can we find an appropriate 'de dicto' paraphrase for any 'de re' proposition? [Plantinga] |
| 14642 | Expressing modality about a statement is 'de dicto'; expressing it of property-possession is 'de re' [Plantinga] |
| 14643 | 'De dicto' true and 'de re' false is possible, and so is 'de dicto' false and 'de re' true [Plantinga] |
| 16978 | If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility [Tahko] |
| 14651 | What Socrates could have been, and could have become, are different? [Plantinga] |
| 16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |
| 13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
| 16976 | Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa) [Tahko] |
| 16977 | If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists [Tahko] |
| 20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |