11 ideas
15567 | Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis] |
15561 | The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis] |
15565 | Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis] |
15566 | Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis] |
15564 | An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis] |
15563 | Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis] |
16980 | We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P] |
15990 | Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke] |
16979 | It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P] |
15994 | If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke] |
15562 | Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis] |