9 ideas
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
5987 | Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |
24043 | Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle] |