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Single Idea 14585

[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception ]

Full Idea

The myth of the fivefold division of the sense needs to be overturned. In the experience of causation the senses of balance and proprioception are more important.

Clarification

'proprioception' is awareness of the behaviour of our bodies

Gist of Idea

We have more than five senses; balance and proprioception, for example

Source

S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum (Getting Causes from Powers [2011], 9.1)

Book Ref

Anjum,R.J./Mumford,S.: 'Getting Causes from Powers' [OUP 2011], p.196

A Reaction

Thinking is a sensual experience too, especially in its emotional dimension. David Hume always based his empiricism on 'experience', not on the mere five external senses.

The 46 ideas from 'Getting Causes from Powers'

14533 Causation doesn't have two distinct relata; it is a single unfolding process [Mumford/Anjum]
14535 Pandispositionalists say structures are clusters of causal powers [Mumford/Anjum]
14536 We say 'power' and 'disposition' are equivalent, but some say dispositions are manifestable [Mumford/Anjum]
14538 Powers explain properties, causes, modality, events, and perhaps even particulars [Mumford/Anjum]
14537 Coincidence is conjunction without causation; smoking causing cancer is the reverse [Mumford/Anjum]
14539 Nature can be interfered with, so a cause never necessitates its effects [Mumford/Anjum]
14541 Events are essentially changes; property exemplifications are just states of affairs [Mumford/Anjum]
14542 If statue and clay fall and crush someone, the event is not overdetermined [Mumford/Anjum]
14549 Maybe truths are necessitated by the facts which are their truthmakers [Mumford/Anjum]
14550 We assert causes without asserting that they necessitate their effects [Mumford/Anjum]
14551 If causation were necessary, the past would fix the future, and induction would be simple [Mumford/Anjum]
14546 Necessary causation should survive antecedent strengthening, but no cause can always survive that [Mumford/Anjum]
14548 There may be necessitation in the world, but causation does not supply it [Mumford/Anjum]
14553 Weak emergence is just unexpected, and strong emergence is beyond all deduction [Mumford/Anjum]
14555 Powers offer no more explanation of nature than laws do [Mumford/Anjum]
14554 Laws are nothing more than descriptions of the behaviour of powers [Mumford/Anjum]
14556 Strong emergence seems to imply top-down causation, originating in consciousness [Mumford/Anjum]
14557 Powers are not just basic forces, since they combine to make new powers [Mumford/Anjum]
14558 A collision is a process, which involves simultaneous happenings, but not instantaneous ones [Mumford/Anjum]
14559 Does causation need a third tying ingredient, or just two that meet, or might there be a single process? [Mumford/Anjum]
14564 If laws are equations, cause and effect must be simultaneous (or the law would be falsified)! [Mumford/Anjum]
14562 A process is unified as an expression of a collection of causal powers [Mumford/Anjum]
14561 Perdurantism imposes no order on temporal parts, so sequences of events are contingent [Mumford/Anjum]
14563 Causation is the passing around of powers [Mumford/Anjum]
14565 Sugar dissolving is a process taking time, not one event and then another [Mumford/Anjum]
14566 Causation by absence is not real causation, but part of our explanatory practices [Mumford/Anjum]
14567 Privileging one cause is just an epistemic or pragmatic matter, not an ontological one [Mumford/Anjum]
14568 A structure won't give a causal explanation unless we know the powers of the structure [Mumford/Anjum]
14569 It is tempting to think that only entailment provides a full explanation [Mumford/Anjum]
14571 The only full uniformities in nature occur from the essences of fundamental things [Mumford/Anjum]
14570 Nature is not completely uniform, and some regular causes sometimes fail to produce their effects [Mumford/Anjum]
14573 Occasionally a cause makes no difference (pre-emption, perhaps) so the counterfactual is false [Mumford/Anjum]
14572 Is a cause because of counterfactual dependence, or is the dependence because there is a cause? [Mumford/Anjum]
14574 Cases of preventing a prevention may give counterfactual dependence without causation [Mumford/Anjum]
14575 A 'ceteris paribus' clause implies that a conditional only has dispositional force [Mumford/Anjum]
14552 Relations are naturally necessary when they are generated by the essential mechanisms of the world [Mumford/Anjum]
14576 Smoking disposes towards cancer; smokers without cancer do not falsify this claim [Mumford/Anjum]
14577 Causation may not be transitive. Does a fire cause itself to be extinguished by the sprinklers? [Mumford/Anjum]
14584 The simple conditional analysis of dispositions doesn't allow for possible prevention [Mumford/Anjum]
14578 Possibility might be non-contradiction, or recombinations of the actual, or truth in possible worlds [Mumford/Anjum]
14579 Dispositionality is the core modality, with possibility and necessity as its extreme cases [Mumford/Anjum]
14580 Dispositions may suggest modality to us - as what might not have been, and what could have been [Mumford/Anjum]
14582 Might dispositions be reduced to normativity, or to intentionality? [Mumford/Anjum]
14583 Dispositionality is a natural selection function, picking outcomes from the range of possibilities [Mumford/Anjum]
14585 We have more than five senses; balance and proprioception, for example [Mumford/Anjum]
14587 We take causation to be primitive, as it is hard to see how it could be further reduced [Mumford/Anjum]