9 ideas
18203 | Avoid non-predicative classifications and definitions [Poincaré] |
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
8443 | Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
8442 | What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa] |
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] |