13 ideas
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
8349 | The best way to do ontology is to make sense of our normal talk [Davidson] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
8348 | If we don't assume that events exist, we cannot make sense of our common talk [Davidson] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
8347 | Explanations typically relate statements, not events [Davidson] |
10371 | Distinguish causation, which is in the world, from explanations, which depend on descriptions [Davidson, by Schaffer,J] |
8403 | Either facts, or highly unspecific events, serve better as causes than concrete events [Field,H on Davidson] |
8346 | Full descriptions can demonstrate sufficiency of cause, but not necessity [Davidson] |
4778 | A singular causal statement is true if it is held to fall under a law [Davidson, by Psillos] |
22908 | When one element contains the grounds of the other, the first one is prior in time [Leibniz] |