16 ideas
3067 | A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments [Aurelius] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
3072 | Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe [Aurelius] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
8329 | Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
3066 | Nothing is evil which is according to nature [Aurelius] |
3071 | Justice has no virtue opposed to it, but pleasure has temperance opposed to it [Aurelius] |
3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
3065 | Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius] |
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] |
8325 | The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley] |