12 ideas
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] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |