11 ideas
13931 | By using aporiai as his start, Aristotle can defer to the wise, as well as to the many [Haslanger] |
13925 | Ontology disputes rest on more basic explanation disputes [Haslanger] |
13095 | Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz] |
13930 | Persistence makes change and its products intelligible [Haslanger] |
13924 | The persistence of objects seems to be needed if the past is to explain the present [Haslanger] |
13927 | We must explain change amongst 'momentary entities', or else the world is inexplicable [Haslanger] |
13928 | If the things which exist prior to now are totally distinct, they need not have existed [Haslanger] |
19440 | How do you know you have conceived a thing deeply enough to assess its possibility? [Vaidya] |
13929 | Natural explanations give the causal interconnections [Haslanger] |
13926 | Best explanations, especially natural ones, need grounding, notably by persistent objects [Haslanger] |
2117 | The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz] |