7439 | The qualities involved in sensations are entirely intentional |
8353 | Freedom involves acting according to an idea |
8352 | To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events |
20041 | Intentional actions are those which are explained by giving the reason for so acting |
8067 | The problem of getting to 'ought' from 'is' would also apply in getting to 'owes' or 'needs' |
8070 | It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions |
8065 | 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned |
8069 | Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed |
8068 | Universalising a maxim needs to first stipulate the right description for the action |
8351 | With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects |
4777 | The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) |
10363 | Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata |
8350 | Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions |