11 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] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
10650 | In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
4316 | Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |
20365 | We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher] |