12 ideas
8329 | Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley] |
22480 | Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot] |
22477 | Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot] |
22478 | The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot] |
22479 | Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
8324 | The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world [Sosa/Tooley] |
8328 | Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts [Sosa/Tooley] |
8327 | If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation [Sosa/Tooley] |
8330 | Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both? [Sosa/Tooley] |
8325 | The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |