Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Causes and Counterfactuals', 'In Defence of Convention T' and 'There is no a Priori'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

9 ideas

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

9354	Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts

9353	We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori

9356	The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics

7331	A theory of meaning comes down to translating sentences into Fregean symbolic logic [Davidson, by Macey]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

8430	Causal statements are used to explain, to predict, to control, to attribute responsibility, and in theories [Kim]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

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]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims

4781	Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos]