12 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
22642 | Man has an intense natural interest in the consistency of his own thinking [James] |
8439 | Maybe each event has only one possible causal history [Bennett] |
8440 | Maybe an event's time of occurrence is essential to it [Bennett] |
22641 | Realities just are, and beliefs are true of them [James] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
22640 | We find satisfaction in consistency of all of our beliefs, perceptions and mental connections [James] |
8441 | Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett] |
8436 | Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett] |
8435 | Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett] |
8437 | The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett] |
8438 | A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett] |