11 ideas
15565 | Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis] |
15567 | Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis] |
15566 | Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis] |
15561 | The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis] |
15564 | An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis] |
15563 | Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis] |
16764 | The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus] |
15562 | Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis] |
21236 | Instead of gravitational force, we now have a pervasive gravitational field [Farmelo] |
21235 | The Schrödinger waves are just the maths of transforming energy values to positions [Farmelo] |
21234 | Experiments show that fundamental particles of one type are identical [Farmelo] |