11 ideas
19426 | 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz] |
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
19427 | True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz] |
8430 | Causal statements are used to explain, to predict, to control, to attribute responsibility, and in theories [Kim] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |
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] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |
4781 | Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos] |