10 ideas
16700 | In order to speak about time and successive entities, the 'present' must be enlarged [Wycliff] |
16701 | To be successive a thing needs parts, which must therefore be lodged outside that instant [Wycliff] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
8430 | Causal statements are used to explain, to predict, to control, to attribute responsibility, and in theories [Kim] |
8396 | Many counterfactuals have nothing to do with causation [Kim, by Tooley] |
8429 | Counterfactuals can express four other relations between events, apart from causation [Kim] |
8428 | Causation is not the only dependency relation expressed by counterfactuals [Kim] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
4781 | Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |