21 ideas
| 23531 | Philosophers should interpret the world, by expressing its possibilities [Berardi] |
| 23538 | Nothingness only exists in consciousness [Berardi] |
| 8836 | Must all justification be inferential? [Ginet] |
| 8837 | Inference cannot originate justification, it can only transfer it from premises to conclusion [Ginet] |
| 12790 | Generalisations must be invariant to explain anything [Leuridan] |
| 12789 | Biological functions are explained by disposition, or by causal role [Leuridan] |
| 14388 | Mechanisms must produce macro-level regularities, but that needs micro-level regularities [Leuridan] |
| 12787 | Mechanisms can't explain on their own, as their models rest on pragmatic regularities [Leuridan] |
| 14384 | We can show that regularities and pragmatic laws are more basic than mechanisms [Leuridan] |
| 14386 | Mechanisms are ontologically dependent on regularities [Leuridan] |
| 14389 | There is nothing wrong with an infinite regress of mechanisms and regularities [Leuridan] |
| 23532 | The delusion of free will brings a sense of guilt [Berardi] |
| 23537 | American white men trusted the philosophy of winning, and then discovered losing [Berardi] |
| 23536 | Community is now a nostalgic memory, which no longer exists [Berardi] |
| 23534 | Communism failed to unite western workers with the oppressed of the south [Berardi] |
| 23533 | The economy has replaced medieval theocracy at the centre of our society [Berardi] |
| 23535 | Western workers turn to nationalism, to avert the effects of globalisation [Berardi] |
| 14387 | Rather than dispositions, functions may be the element that brought a thing into existence [Leuridan] |
| 14382 | Pragmatic laws allow prediction and explanation, to the extent that reality is stable [Leuridan] |
| 14385 | Strict regularities are rarely discovered in life sciences [Leuridan] |
| 14383 | A 'law of nature' is just a regularity, not some entity that causes the regularity [Leuridan] |