8 ideas
15464 | The distinction between dispositional and 'categorical' properties leads to confusion [Lewis] |
15463 | All dispositions must have causal bases [Lewis] |
15461 | A 'finkish' disposition is real, but disappears when the stimulus occurs [Lewis] |
15462 | Backtracking counterfactuals go from supposed events to their required causal antecedents [Lewis] |
7276 | All art is quite useless [Wilde] |
7274 | Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral [Wilde] |
7275 | Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist [Wilde] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |