9 ideas
11193 | Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna] |
12714 | The substantial form is the principle of action or the primitive force of acting [Leibniz] |
11209 | The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna] |
11204 | The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna] |
12743 | A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject [Leibniz] |
15036 | An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio] |
8412 | A causal interaction is when two processes intersect, and correlated modifications persist afterwards [Salmon] |
8413 | Cause must come first in propagations of causal interactions, but interactions are simultaneous [Salmon] |
8411 | Instead of localised events, I take enduring and extended processes as basic to causation [Salmon] |