8 ideas
| 8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
| 12185 | Logical necessity is epistemic necessity, which is the old notion of a priori [Edgington, by McFetridge] |
| 6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
| 10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
| 6616 | Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis] |
| 6615 | A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis] |
| 6614 | A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws [Ellis] |
| 6612 | Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis] |