17 ideas
7548 | Classes, grouped by a convenient property, are logical constructions [Russell] |
7545 | Visible things are physical and external, but only exist when viewed [Russell] |
7553 | Sense-data are purely physical [Russell] |
7549 | If my body literally lost its mind, the object seen when I see a flash would still exist [Russell] |
7546 | A man is a succession of momentary men, bound by continuity and causation [Russell] |
7550 | We could probably, in principle, infer minds from brains, and brains from minds [Russell] |
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] |
4781 | Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos] |
21236 | Instead of gravitational force, we now have a pervasive gravitational field [Farmelo] |
21235 | The Schrödinger waves are just the maths of transforming energy values to positions [Farmelo] |
7547 | Matter requires a division into time-corpuscles as well as space-corpuscles [Russell] |
7551 | Matter is a logical construction [Russell] |
21234 | Experiments show that fundamental particles of one type are identical [Farmelo] |
7552 | Six dimensions are needed for a particular, three within its own space, and three to locate that space [Russell] |