9 ideas
| 17527 | Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird] |
| 7492 | Early societies are based on community, and modern societies on association [Tönnies, by Watson] |
| 6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
| 17528 | The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird] |
| 17526 | The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird] |
| 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] |
| 6612 | Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis] |