Single Idea 18438

[catalogued under 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism]

Full Idea

Nothing happens in the world, not the flutter of an eyelid, not the flicker of a thought, without some redistribution of microphysical states.

Gist of Idea

Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states

Source

Willard Quine (on Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking' [1978], p.98)

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'Theories and Things' [Harvard 1981], p.98


A Reaction

Is this causation, identity, or baffling supervenience?