9 ideas
8386 | Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
8387 | A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties [Crane] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |
8384 | The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane] |