9 ideas
| 7855 | Some suggest that materialism is empty, because 'physical' cannot be properly characterized [Mellor/Crane, by Papineau] |
| 7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
| 6120 | Causation depends on intrinsic properties [Mellor/Crane] |
| 17527 | Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird] |
| 3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
| 6121 | There are many psychophysicals laws - about the effects of sweets, colours and soft cushions [Mellor/Crane] |
| 6122 | No defences of physicalism can deprive psychology of the ontological authority of other sciences [Mellor/Crane] |
| 17528 | The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird] |
| 17526 | The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird] |