14 ideas
| 19735 | Wisdom has a higher value than understanding, which has a higher value than knowledge [Greco] |
| 15565 | Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis] |
| 15567 | Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis] |
| 15566 | Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis] |
| 15561 | The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis] |
| 15564 | An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis] |
| 15563 | Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis] |
| 15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
| 15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
| 15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
| 19734 | If value is practical, knowledge is no better than true opinion [Greco] |
| 19733 | Externalist theories don't explain why knowledge has value [Greco] |
| 15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |
| 15562 | Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis] |