8 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
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] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |
15314 | Faraday's single field of variable forces introduces a criterion of Unity into what is ultimate [Faraday, by Harré/Madden] |