14 ideas
| 22626 | Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher] |
| 16062 | A necessary relation between fact-levels seems to be a further irreducible fact [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 16061 | If some facts 'logically supervene' on some others, they just redescribe them, adding nothing [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 16060 | Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 16064 | The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 10650 | In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher] |
| 20365 | We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher] |
| 24162 | Planck introduced the idea that energy can be quantized [Baggott] |
| 21731 | Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott] |
| 21730 | A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott] |
| 24163 | Free electrons have clouds of virtual particles, arising from field interaction [Baggott] |
| 24161 | Thermodynamics sees nature as a continuous flow of energy, as radiation and as substance [Baggott] |
| 21732 | The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott] |
| 24160 | Particle measurements don't seem to reflect their reality [Baggott] |