11 ideas
8353 | Freedom involves acting according to an idea [Anscombe] |
8352 | To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events [Anscombe] |
23801 | Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte] |
22693 | The works we value most are in sympathy with our own moral views [John,E] |
22694 | We should understand what is morally important in a story, without having to endorse it [John,E] |
22695 | We value morality in art because that is what we care about - but it is a contingent fact [John,E] |
22692 | A work can be morally and artistically excellent, despite rejecting moral truth [John,E] |
8351 | With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe] |
4777 | The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) [Anscombe] |
10363 | Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Anscombe, by Schaffer,J] |
8350 | Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions [Anscombe] |