12 ideas
8443 | Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa] |
8329 | Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
8324 | The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world [Sosa/Tooley] |
8328 | Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts [Sosa/Tooley] |
8327 | If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation [Sosa/Tooley] |
8330 | Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both? [Sosa/Tooley] |
8442 | What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa] |
8325 | The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley] |
8445 | The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa] |
8444 | Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |