12 ideas
18969 | How do you distinguish three beliefs from four beliefs or two beliefs? [Quine] |
8329 | Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley] |
18967 | A 'proposition' is said to be the timeless cognitive part of the meaning of a sentence [Quine] |
18968 | The problem with propositions is their individuation. When do two sentences express one proposition? [Quine] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
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] |
18970 | The concept of a 'point' makes no sense without the idea of absolute position [Quine] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |