9 ideas
5035 | The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
5038 | Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz] |
6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
8409 | Probabilistic causal concepts are widely used in everyday life and in science [Salmon] |
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] |
5037 | God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz] |