11 ideas
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
15127 | A categorical basis could hardly explain a disposition if it had no powers of its own [Hawthorne] |
15123 | Is the causal profile of a property its essence? [Hawthorne] |
15122 | Could two different properties have the same causal profile? [Hawthorne] |
15124 | If properties are more than their powers, we could have two properties with the same power [Hawthorne] |
15128 | We can treat the structure/form of the world differently from the nodes/matter of the world [Hawthorne] |
15121 | An individual essence is a necessary and sufficient profile for a thing [Hawthorne] |
13082 | The complete concept of an individual includes contingent properties, as well as necessary ones [Leibniz] |
15126 | Maybe scientific causation is just generalisation about the patterns [Hawthorne] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |
15125 | We only know the mathematical laws, but not much else [Hawthorne] |