10 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
16655 | Different genera are delimited by modes of predication, which rest on modes of being [Aquinas] |
8361 | What is true used to be possible, but it may no longer be so [Wright,GHv] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
8363 | p is a cause and q an effect (not vice versa) if manipulations of p change q [Wright,GHv] |
8364 | We can imagine controlling floods by controlling rain, but not vice versa [Wright,GHv] |
8366 | The very notion of a cause depends on agency and action [Wright,GHv] |
8362 | We give regularities a causal character by subjecting them to experiment [Wright,GHv] |
8360 | We must further analyse conditions for causation, into quantifiers or modal concepts [Wright,GHv] |
8365 | Some laws are causal (Ohm's Law), but others are conceptual principles (conservation of energy) [Wright,GHv] |