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] |
16285 | A possible world can be seen as a complete and consistent novel [Jeffrey] |
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] |
19155 | Instead of gambling, Jeffrey made the objects of Bayesian preference to be propositions [Jeffrey, by Davidson] |
14346 | Dispositional essentialism says fundamental laws of nature are strict, not ceteris paribus [Corry] |