8 ideas
14348 | An 'antidote' allows a manifestation to begin, but then blocks it [Corry] |
14347 | A 'finkish' disposition is one that is lost immediately after the appropriate stimulus [Corry] |
14350 | If a disposition is never instantiated, it shouldn't be part of our theory of nature [Corry] |
3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
14351 | Maybe an experiment unmasks an essential disposition, and reveals its regularities [Corry] |
20328 | A thing is only seen as art in an 'artworld', which has a theory and a history [Danto] |
20441 | An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto] |
14346 | Dispositional essentialism says fundamental laws of nature are strict, not ceteris paribus [Corry] |