11 ideas
8460 | Philosophers have given precise senses to deduction, probability, computability etc [Quine/Ullian] |
3534 | To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S] |
13437 | A CAR and its major PART can become identical, yet seem to have different properties [Gallois] |
16233 | Gallois hoped to clarify identity through time, but seems to make talk of it impossible [Hawley on Gallois] |
16025 | If things change they become different - but then no one thing undergoes the change! [Gallois] |
16026 | 4D: time is space-like; a thing is its history; past and future are real; or things extend in time [Gallois] |
14755 | Gallois is committed to identity with respect to times, and denial of simple identity [Gallois, by Sider] |
16231 | Occasional Identity: two objects can be identical at one time, and different at others [Gallois, by Hawley] |
16027 | If two things are equal, each side involves a necessity, so the equality is necessary [Gallois] |
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] |