9 ideas
6855 | Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M] |
6856 | Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M] |
14348 | An 'antidote' allows a manifestation to begin, but then blocks it [Corry] |
14347 | A 'finkish' disposition is one that is lost immediately after the appropriate stimulus [Corry] |
14350 | If a disposition is never instantiated, it shouldn't be part of our theory of nature [Corry] |
6857 | An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M] |
14351 | Maybe an experiment unmasks an essential disposition, and reveals its regularities [Corry] |
14346 | Dispositional essentialism says fundamental laws of nature are strict, not ceteris paribus [Corry] |
19673 | Galileo mathematised movement, and revealed its invariable component - acceleration [Galileo, by Meillassoux] |