12 ideas
13163 | Circles must be bounded, so cannot be infinite [Leibniz] |
16052 | 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T] |
16053 | 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T] |
16056 | Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
13162 | Sloth's Syllogism: either it can't happen, or it is inevitable without my effort [Leibniz] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
19339 | Evil is a negation of good, which arises from non-being [Leibniz] |
13164 | God only made sin possible because a much greater good can be derived from it [Leibniz] |