Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'An Argument for the Identity Theory' and 'De rebus naturalibus'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

16740

A power is not a cause, but an aptitude for a cause [Zabarella]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 4. Causal Functionalism

7441	Experiences are defined by their causal role, and causal roles belong to physical states [Lewis]

7442	'Pain' contingently names the state that occupies the causal role of pain [Lewis]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

16571

Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella]