18 ideas
8658 | For there was never yet philosopher/ That could endure the toothache patiently [Shakespeare] |
22708 | Good reasons must give way to better [Shakespeare] |
17486 | Supervenience is simply modally robust property co-variance [Hendry] |
17481 | Nuclear charge (plus laws) explains electron structure and spectrum, but not vice versa [Hendry] |
20304 | The cause of my action is in my will [Shakespeare] |
23565 | Our obedience to the king erases any crimes we commit for him [Shakespeare] |
17478 | Maybe two kinds are the same if there is no change of entropy on isothermal mixing [Hendry] |
4787 | Causation interaction is an exchange of conserved quantities, such as mass, energy or charge [Dowe, by Psillos] |
14586 | Physical causation consists in transference of conserved quantities [Dowe, by Mumford/Anjum] |
17484 | Maybe the nature of water is macroscopic, and not in the microstructure [Hendry] |
17479 | The nature of an element must survive chemical change, so it is the nucleus, not the electrons [Hendry] |
17485 | Maybe water is the smallest part of it that still counts as water (which is H2O molecules) [Hendry] |
4788 | Dowe commends the Conserved Quantity theory as it avoids mention of counterfactuals [Dowe, by Psillos] |
17482 | Compounds can differ with the same collection of atoms, so structure matters too [Hendry] |
17483 | Water continuously changes, with new groupings of molecules [Hendry] |
17476 | Elements survive chemical change, and are tracked to explain direction and properties [Hendry] |
17477 | Defining elements by atomic number allowed atoms of an element to have different masses [Hendry] |
17480 | Generally it is nuclear charge (not nuclear mass) which determines behaviour [Hendry] |