8 ideas
8979 | Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons] |
8981 | Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons] |
8973 | Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
335 | Do the gods also hold different opinions about what is right and honourable? [Plato] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
336 | Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? (the 'Euthyphro Question') [Plato] |
337 | It seems that the gods love things because they are pious, rather than making them pious by loving them [Plato] |