17 ideas
19456 | Philosophy is distinguished from other sciences by its complete lack of presuppositions [Feuerbach] |
17486 | Supervenience is simply modally robust property co-variance [Hendry] |
17481 | Nuclear charge (plus laws) explains electron structure and spectrum, but not vice versa [Hendry] |
6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
17478 | Maybe two kinds are the same if there is no change of entropy on isothermal mixing [Hendry] |
6616 | Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis] |
17484 | Maybe the nature of water is macroscopic, and not in the microstructure [Hendry] |
6615 | A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis] |
17479 | The nature of an element must survive chemical change, so it is the nucleus, not the electrons [Hendry] |
17485 | Maybe water is the smallest part of it that still counts as water (which is H2O molecules) [Hendry] |
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] |
17482 | Compounds can differ with the same collection of atoms, so structure matters too [Hendry] |
17483 | Water continuously changes, with new groupings of molecules [Hendry] |
17476 | Elements survive chemical change, and are tracked to explain direction and properties [Hendry] |
17477 | Defining elements by atomic number allowed atoms of an element to have different masses [Hendry] |
17480 | Generally it is nuclear charge (not nuclear mass) which determines behaviour [Hendry] |