11 ideas
8349 | The best way to do ontology is to make sense of our normal talk [Davidson] |
17744 | De Morgan started the study of relations and their properties [De Morgan, by Walicki] |
13501 | De Morgan found inferences involving relations, which eluded Aristotle's syllogistic [De Morgan, by Hart,WD] |
8348 | If we don't assume that events exist, we cannot make sense of our common talk [Davidson] |
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
8347 | Explanations typically relate statements, not events [Davidson] |
10371 | Distinguish causation, which is in the world, from explanations, which depend on descriptions [Davidson, by Schaffer,J] |
8403 | Either facts, or highly unspecific events, serve better as causes than concrete events [Field,H on Davidson] |
8346 | Full descriptions can demonstrate sufficiency of cause, but not necessity [Davidson] |
4778 | A singular causal statement is true if it is held to fall under a law [Davidson, by Psillos] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |