Combining Texts
Ideas for
'The Varieties of Necessity', 'Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Natural Kinds'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
18 ideas
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
22052
|
Kant's nature is just a system of necessary laws [Bowie on Kant]
|
8256
|
Kant identifies nature with the scientific picture of it as the realm of law [Kant, by McDowell]
|
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
5591
|
Reason must assume as necessary that everything in a living organism has a proportionate purpose [Kant]
|
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension
5615
|
Extension and impenetrability together make the concept of matter [Kant]
|
26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
7375
|
Quine probably regrets natural kinds now being treated as essences [Quine, by Dennett]
|
16935
|
If similarity has no degrees, kinds cannot be contained within one another [Quine]
|
16936
|
Comparative similarity allows the kind 'colored' to contain the kind 'red' [Quine]
|
26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 3. Knowing Kinds
16937
|
You can't base kinds just on resemblance, because chains of resemblance are a muddle [Quine]
|
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
14560
|
A ball denting a pillow seems like simultaneous cause and effect, though time identifies which is cause [Kant]
|
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction
5545
|
Appearances give rules of what usually happens, but cause involves necessity [Kant]
|
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
9755
|
The concept of causality entails laws; random causality is a contradiction [Kant, by Korsgaard]
|
17709
|
We judge causation by relating events together by some law of nature [Kant, by Mares]
|
5562
|
Experience is only possible because we subject appearances to causal laws [Kant]
|
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
5523
|
Causation obviously involves necessity, so it cannot just be frequent association [Kant]
|
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
16942
|
It is hard to see how regularities could be explained [Quine]
|
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
9215
|
Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K]
|
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
19669
|
For Kant the laws must be necessary, because contingency would destroy representation [Kant, by Meillassoux]
|
19672
|
Kant fails to prove the necessity of laws, because his reasoning about chance is over-ambitious [Meillassoux on Kant]
|