10 ideas
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
19722 | We could know the evidence for our belief without knowing why it is such evidence [Mittag] |
19723 | Evidentialism can't explain that we accept knowledge claims if the evidence is forgotten [Mittag] |
19720 | Evidentialism concerns the evidence for the proposition, not for someone to believe it [Mittag] |
19721 | Coherence theories struggle with the role of experience [Mittag] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |