8 ideas
16676 | Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham] |
12432 | Explanation of necessity must rest on something necessary or something contingent [Hale] |
12434 | Why is this necessary, and what is necessity in general; why is this necessary truth true, and why necessary? [Hale] |
12435 | The explanation of a necessity can be by a truth (which may only happen to be a necessary truth) [Hale] |
12433 | If necessity rests on linguistic conventions, those are contingent, so there is no necessity [Hale] |
12436 | Concept-identities explain how we know necessities, not why they are necessary [Hale] |
16675 | Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham] |
13440 | Causation is the power of one property to produce another, and this gives time its direction [Esfeld] |