10 ideas
15561 | The events that suit semantics may not be the events that suit causation [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] |
15565 | Events have inbuilt essences, as necessary conditions for their occurrence [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] |
3583 | External objects are permanent possibilities of sensation [Mill] |
3537 | I judge others' feeling by analogy with my body and behaviour [Mill] |
22489 | 'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot] |
15562 | Causation is a general relation derived from instances of causal dependence [Lewis] |