10 ideas
12270 | Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle] |
15464 | The distinction between dispositional and 'categorical' properties leads to confusion [Lewis] |
15463 | All dispositions must have causal bases [Lewis] |
15461 | A 'finkish' disposition is real, but disappears when the stimulus occurs [Lewis] |
15462 | Backtracking counterfactuals go from supposed events to their required causal antecedents [Lewis] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
3059 | There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5100 | The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
456 | Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus] |