10 ideas
14713 | Truth in a scenario is the negation in that scenario being a priori incoherent [Chalmers] |
8361 | What is true used to be possible, but it may no longer be so [Wright,GHv] |
14712 | A sentence is a priori if no possible way the world might actually be could make it false [Chalmers] |
21097 | Modern monarchies are (like republics) rule by law, rather than by men [Hume] |
8363 | p is a cause and q an effect (not vice versa) if manipulations of p change q [Wright,GHv] |
8364 | We can imagine controlling floods by controlling rain, but not vice versa [Wright,GHv] |
8366 | The very notion of a cause depends on agency and action [Wright,GHv] |
8362 | We give regularities a causal character by subjecting them to experiment [Wright,GHv] |
8360 | We must further analyse conditions for causation, into quantifiers or modal concepts [Wright,GHv] |
8365 | Some laws are causal (Ohm's Law), but others are conceptual principles (conservation of energy) [Wright,GHv] |