10 ideas
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
9497 | Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong] |
15550 | Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
8443 | Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
8442 | What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |
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] |
13097 | Force in substance makes state follow state, and ensures the very existence of substance [Leibniz] |