Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd edn)', 'On the Reduction of Necessity to Essence' and 'Causality: Reductionism versus Realism'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

6 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

2945	Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

2946	You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

16974

The nature of each logical concept is given by a collection of inference rules [Correia]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

16973

Explain logical necessity by logical consequence, or the other way around? [Correia]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8416	Reductionists can't explain accidents, uninstantiated laws, probabilities, or the existence of any laws [Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation

8418	Quantum physics suggests that the basic laws of nature are probabilistic [Tooley]