8 ideas
21239 | Philosophers are marked by a joint love of evidence and ambiguity [Merleau-Ponty] |
4742 | Correspondence may be one-many or many one, as when either p or q make 'p or q' true [Armstrong] |
5060 | All substances analyse down to simple substances, which are souls, or 'monads' [Leibniz] |
9497 | Without modality, Armstrong falls back on fictionalism to support counterfactual laws [Bird on Armstrong] |
15550 | Properties are contingently existing beings with multiple locations in space and time [Armstrong, by Lewis] |
4743 | The truth-maker for a truth must necessitate that truth [Armstrong] |
5059 | Power rules in efficient causes, but wisdom rules in connecting them to final causes [Leibniz] |
4798 | In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos] |