11 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
8114 | The institutional theory says only a competent expert can decree something to be an art work [Dickie, by Gardner] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
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] |