10 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
15565 | Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [Lewis] |
15566 | Events are classes, and so there is a mereology of their parts [Lewis] |
15567 | Some events involve no change; they must, because causal histories involve unchanges [Lewis] |
15561 | The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [Lewis] |
15564 | An event is a property of a unique space-time region [Lewis] |
15563 | Properties are very abundant (unlike universals), and are used for semantics and higher-order variables [Lewis] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |
15562 | Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |