11 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
15797 | All structures are dispositional, objects are dispositions sets, and events manifest dispositions [Fetzer] |
15800 | All events and objects are dispositional, and hence all structural properties are dispositional [Fetzer] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
15798 | Kinds are arrangements of dispositions [Fetzer] |
6616 | Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis] |
15799 | Lawlike sentences are general attributions of disposition to all members of some class [Fetzer] |
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] |