18 ideas
15557 | Verisimilitude has proved hard to analyse, and seems to have several components [Lewis] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
15554 | A disposition needs a causal basis, a property in a certain causal role. Could the disposition be the property? [Lewis] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
15560 | We can explain a chance event, but can never show why some other outcome did not occur [Lewis] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
15559 | Does a good explanation produce understanding? That claim is just empty [Lewis] |
15556 | Science may well pursue generalised explanation, rather than laws [Lewis] |
15558 | A good explanation is supposed to show that the event had to happen [Lewis] |
4809 | Lewis endorses the thesis that all explanation of singular events is causal explanation [Lewis, by Psillos] |
14321 | To explain an event is to provide some information about its causal history [Lewis] |
23689 | Moral words have an inherited power from expressing attitudes in emotional situations [Stevenson,CL] |
15555 | Explaining match lighting in general is like explaining one lighting of a match [Lewis] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |
15551 | Ways of carving causes may be natural, but never 'right' [Lewis] |
15552 | We only pick 'the' cause for the purposes of some particular enquiry. [Lewis] |
15553 | Causal dependence is counterfactual dependence between events [Lewis] |