9 ideas
6710 | You can only define a statement that something is 'true' by referring to its functional possibilities [James] |
22305 | If the hypothesis of God is widely successful, it is true [James] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
8430 | Causal statements are used to explain, to predict, to control, to attribute responsibility, and in theories [Kim] |
8396 | Many counterfactuals have nothing to do with causation [Kim, by Tooley] |
8429 | Counterfactuals can express four other relations between events, apart from causation [Kim] |
8428 | Causation is not the only dependency relation expressed by counterfactuals [Kim] |
4781 | Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |