13 ideas
5435 | An interpreter of a text, because of wider knowledge, can understand it better than its author [Schleiermacher, by Mautner] |
22028 | Unity emerges from understanding particulars, so understanding is prior to seeing unity [Schleiermacher] |
3534 | To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S] |
8361 | What is true used to be possible, but it may no longer be so [Wright,GHv] |
14494 | Epiphenomenalism is like a pointless nobleman, kept for show, but soon to be abolished [Alexander,S] |
3398 | Epiphenomenalism makes the mind totally pointless [Alexander,S] |
20959 | Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject [Schleiermacher] |
8363 | p is a cause and q an effect (not vice versa) if manipulations of p change q [Wright,GHv] |
8364 | We can imagine controlling floods by controlling rain, but not vice versa [Wright,GHv] |
8366 | The very notion of a cause depends on agency and action [Wright,GHv] |
8362 | We give regularities a causal character by subjecting them to experiment [Wright,GHv] |
8360 | We must further analyse conditions for causation, into quantifiers or modal concepts [Wright,GHv] |
8365 | Some laws are causal (Ohm's Law), but others are conceptual principles (conservation of energy) [Wright,GHv] |