11 ideas
14330 | To be realists about dispositions, we can only discuss them through their categorical basis [Armstrong] |
8443 | Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa] |
6498 | Armstrong suggests secondary qualities are blurred primary qualities [Armstrong, by Robinson,H] |
5690 | A mental state without belief refutes self-intimation; a belief with no state refutes infallibility [Armstrong, by Shoemaker] |
5493 | If pains are defined causally, and research shows that the causal role is physical, then pains are physical [Armstrong, by Lycan] |
4600 | Armstrong and Lewis see functionalism as an identity of the function and its realiser [Armstrong, by Heil] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
8442 | What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa] |
8445 | The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa] |
8444 | Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |