11 ideas
16664 | Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony] |
15148 | Powers give explanations, without being necessary for some class membership [Chakravartty] |
15145 | A kind essence is the necessary and sufficient properties for membership of a class [Chakravartty] |
15147 | Cluster kinds are explained simply by sharing some properties, not by an 'essence' [Chakravartty] |
16703 | God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony] |
16699 | Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony] |
15144 | Explanation of causal phenomena concerns essential kinds - but also lack of them [Chakravartty] |
4921 | Quantum states in microtubules could bind brain activity to produce consciousness [Penrose] |
16570 | Elements are found last in dismantling bodies, and first in generating them [Albert of Saxony] |
15146 | Some kinds, such as electrons, have essences, but 'cluster kinds' do not [Chakravartty] |
15151 | Many causal laws do not refer to kinds, but only to properties [Chakravartty] |