14 ideas
| 8594 | People have had good reasons for thinking that the circle has been squared [Shoemaker] |
| 11074 | 'It is true that this follows' means simply: this follows [Wittgenstein] |
| 11073 | Two and one making three has the necessity of logical inference [Wittgenstein] |
| 8596 | Inability to measure equality doesn't make all lengths unequal [Shoemaker] |
| 8597 | We couldn't verify the earth's rotation if everyone simultaneously fell asleep [Shoemaker] |
| 8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
| 8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
| 8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
| 8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
| 8593 | Maybe billions of changeless years have elapsed since my last meal [Shoemaker] |
| 8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |
| 8598 | If things turn red for an hour and then explode, we wouldn't say the redness was the cause [Shoemaker] |
| 4226 | If three regions 'freeze' every three, four and five years, after sixty years everything stops for a year [Shoemaker, by Lowe] |
| 8595 | If three regions freeze every 3rd, 4th and 5th year, they all freeze together every 60 years [Shoemaker] |