19 ideas
16554 | Activities have place, rate, duration, entities, properties, modes, direction, polarity, energy and range [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
18430 | We accept properties because of type/tokens, reference, and quantification [Edwards] |
18432 | Quineans say that predication is primitive and inexplicable [Edwards] |
16556 | Penicillin causes nothing; the cause is what penicillin does [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
18437 | Resemblance nominalism requires a second entity to explain 'the rose is crimson' [Edwards] |
18434 | That a whole is prior to its parts ('priority monism') is a view gaining in support [Edwards] |
16562 | We understand something by presenting its low-level entities and activities [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
16563 | The explanation is not the regularity, but the activity sustaining it [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
16555 | Functions are not properties of objects, they are activities contributing to mechanisms [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
16529 | Mechanisms are systems organised to produce regular change [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
16530 | A mechanism explains a phenomenon by showing how it was produced [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
16553 | Our account of mechanism combines both entities and activities [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
16559 | Descriptions of explanatory mechanisms have a bottom level, where going further is irrelevant [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
16528 | Mechanisms are not just push-pull systems [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
16564 | There are four types of bottom-level activities which will explain phenomena [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
16561 | We can abstract by taking an exemplary case and ignoring the detail [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
16558 | Laws of nature have very little application in biology [Machamer/Darden/Craver] |