8 ideas
21757 | Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel] |
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] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |