14 ideas
| 8349 | The best way to do ontology is to make sense of our normal talk [Davidson] |
| 18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
| 8348 | If we don't assume that events exist, we cannot make sense of our common talk [Davidson] |
| 18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
| 18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
| 8347 | Explanations typically relate statements, not events [Davidson] |
| 18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
| 1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 10371 | Distinguish causation, which is in the world, from explanations, which depend on descriptions [Davidson, by Schaffer,J] |
| 8403 | Either facts, or highly unspecific events, serve better as causes than concrete events [Field,H on Davidson] |
| 8346 | Full descriptions can demonstrate sufficiency of cause, but not necessity [Davidson] |
| 4778 | A singular causal statement is true if it is held to fall under a law [Davidson, by Psillos] |
| 18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
| 5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |