Philosophy Ideas Database

PhilosophyIdeas.com Database | Current Total Ideas: 22,104 | home | back

expand these ideas | start again | choose another area for these philosophers

display all the ideas for this combination of philosophers

26 ideas

6762	Newton's laws cannot be confirmed individually, but only in combinations [Bird]

6763	Parapsychology is mere speculation, because it offers no mechanisms for its working [Bird]

6772	Existence requires laws, as inertia or gravity are needed for mass or matter [Bird]

9507	Laws are explanatory relationships of things, which supervene on their essences [Bird]

9488	Laws are either disposition regularities, or relations between properties [Bird]

6746	There may be many laws, each with only a few instances [Bird]

6740	'All uranium lumps are small' is a law, but 'all gold lumps are small' is not [Bird]

6741	There can be remarkable uniformities in nature that are purely coincidental [Bird]

6742	A law might have no instances, if it was about things that only exist momentarily [Bird]

6743	If laws are just instances, the law should either have gaps, or join the instances arbitrarily [Bird]

6744	Where is the regularity in a law predicting nuclear decay? [Bird]

6747	Laws cannot explain instances if they are regularities, as something can't explain itself [Bird]

6748	Similar appearance of siblings is a regularity, but shared parents is what links them [Bird]

6749	We can only infer a true regularity if something binds the instances together [Bird]

6803	If we only infer laws from regularities among observations, we can't infer unobservable entities. [Bird]

6801	Accidental regularities are not laws, and an apparent regularity may not be actual [Bird]

9496	That other diamonds are hard does not explain why this one is [Bird]

9479	Dispositional essentialism says laws (and laws about laws) are guaranteed regularities [Bird]

6745	A regularity is only a law if it is part of a complete system which is simple and strong [Bird]

6802	With strange enough predicates, anything could be made out to be a regularity [Bird]

9473	Laws cannot offer unified explanations if they don't involve universals [Bird]

9484	If the universals for laws must be instantiated, a vanishing particular could destroy a law [Bird]

9506	Salt necessarily dissolves in water, because of the law which makes the existence of salt possible [Bird]

23713

Most laws supervene on fundamental laws, which are explained by basic powers [Bird, by Friend/Kimpton-Nye]

6789	If flame colour is characteristic of a metal, that is an empirical claim needing justification [Bird]

9489	Essentialism can't use conditionals to explain regularities, because of possible interventions [Bird]