15 ideas
17488 | Empiricist theories are sets of laws, which give explanations and reductions [Glennan] |
17493 | Modern mechanism need parts with spatial, temporal and function facts, and diagrams [Glennan] |
17487 | Mechanistic philosophy of science is an alternative to the empiricist law-based tradition [Glennan] |
17489 | Mechanisms are either systems of parts or sequences of activities [Glennan] |
17490 | 17th century mechanists explained everything by the kinetic physical fundamentals [Glennan] |
17491 | Unlike the lawlike approach, mechanistic explanation can allow for exceptions [Glennan] |
4581 | Virtues and vices are like secondary qualities in perception, found in observers, not objects [Hume] |
23395 | Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden] |
23394 | If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi] |
4580 | All virtues benefit either the public, or the individual who possesses them [Hume] |
23396 | Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi] |
23397 | Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi] |
4579 | The idea of a final cause is very uncertain and unphilosophical [Hume] |
17494 | Since causal events are related by mechanisms, causation can be analysed in that way [Glennan] |
20705 | That events could be uncaused is absurd; I only say intuition and demonstration don't show this [Hume] |