7 ideas
14330 | To be realists about dispositions, we can only discuss them through their categorical basis [Armstrong] |
6498 | Armstrong suggests secondary qualities are blurred primary qualities [Armstrong, by Robinson,H] |
18284 | Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper] |
5690 | A mental state without belief refutes self-intimation; a belief with no state refutes infallibility [Armstrong, by Shoemaker] |
5493 | If pains are defined causally, and research shows that the causal role is physical, then pains are physical [Armstrong, by Lycan] |
4600 | Armstrong and Lewis see functionalism as an identity of the function and its realiser [Armstrong, by Heil] |
17993 | Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter] |