11 ideas
19695 | The devil was wise as an angel, and lost no knowledge when he rebelled [Whitcomb] |
10365 | We might use 'facta' to refer to the truth-makers for facts [Mellor, by Schaffer,J] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
16643 | Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
16696 | Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura] |
4785 | Causal statements relate facts (which are whatever true propositions express) [Mellor, by Psillos] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |
8408 | Probabilistic causation says C is a cause of E if it increases the chances of E occurring [Mellor, by Tooley] |