10 ideas
9100 | Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
9101 | Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham] |
8329 | Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
8324 | The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world [Sosa/Tooley] |
8328 | Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts [Sosa/Tooley] |
8327 | If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation [Sosa/Tooley] |
8330 | Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both? [Sosa/Tooley] |
8325 | The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley] |