10 ideas
18088 | Intentionality is the mark of dispositions, not of the mental [Place] |
8872 | It is widely supposed that externalism cannot be reconciled with first-person authority [Davidson] |
8874 | It is hard to interpret a speaker's actions if we take a broad view of the content [Davidson] |
6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
8873 | The cause of a usage determines meaning, but why is the microstructure of water relevant? [Davidson] |
6616 | Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis] |
6615 | A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis] |
6614 | A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws [Ellis] |
18089 | Dispositions are not general laws, but laws of the natures of individual entities [Place] |
6612 | Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis] |