10 ideas
22642 | Man has an intense natural interest in the consistency of his own thinking [James] |
22641 | Realities just are, and beliefs are true of them [James] |
21686 | Sense-data are dubious abstractions, with none of the plausibility of tables [Quine] |
21685 | Empiricism says evidence rests on the senses, but that insight is derived from science [Quine] |
22640 | We find satisfaction in consistency of all of our beliefs, perceptions and mental connections [James] |
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] |