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The article focuses on Plato's tinos requirement in the dialogue "Sophist." The author believes that Plato intends the something requirement in the "Sophist" to be a metaphysical conditions of somethings, of beings, the sorts of entities that can serve as objects of discourse and thought. She raises the issue concerning the ontological problem and the semantic problems that exist in the tinos requirement like the mythical discourse. Details related to the arguments against the dialogue "Sophist" are discussed.

The article presents the author's view regarding philosopher Robert Desgabets adoption of the Cartesian philosophy. He says philosopher Emmanuel Faye describes Desgabets' work as original and striking metaphysical thought in which his philosophy is consistent and coherent with that of philosopher Nicolas Malebranche. He discusses some of Desgabets' unusual views about how thought is related to reality and possibility. The author further reveals that Desgabets' acceptance of the orthodox Cartesian view forced him to accept some surprising restrictions on what he could say about God's creative options.

Commentaries on the article "Freedom from the Inside Out," by Carl Hoefer are presented. Hoefer's article offers an unusual and inspired perspective on the problem of free will. A brief overview of Hoefer's proposal and the metaphysics of time that it involves is offered. Hoefer has argued that determinism in block universes does not privilege any particular time slice as the fundamental determiner of other time slices. Some of Hoefer's theories are modified. It has been suggested that Hoefer should instead claim that one has pervasive macroscopic efficacy toward the past.