18 ideas
| 8349 | The best way to do ontology is to make sense of our normal talk [Davidson] |
| 18779 | 'The' is a quantifier, like 'every' and 'a', and does not result in denotation [Montague] |
| 23634 | Accepting the existence of anything presupposes the notion of existence [Reid] |
| 8348 | If we don't assume that events exist, we cannot make sense of our common talk [Davidson] |
| 23635 | Truths are self-evident to sensible persons who understand them clearly without prejudice [Reid] |
| 7631 | Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is [Reid] |
| 23637 | Primary qualities are the object of mathematics [Reid] |
| 23638 | Secondary qualities conjure up, and are confused with, the sensations which produce them [Reid] |
| 23639 | It is unclear whether a toothache is in the mind or in the tooth, but the word has a single meaning [Reid] |
| 6492 | Reid is seen as the main direct realist of the eighteenth century [Reid, by Robinson,H] |
| 23641 | People dislike believing without evidence, and try to avoid it [Reid] |
| 23642 | If non-rational evidence reaches us, it is reason which then makes use of it [Reid] |
| 8347 | Explanations typically relate statements, not events [Davidson] |
| 23640 | Only mature minds can distinguish the qualities of a body [Reid] |
| 10371 | Distinguish causation, which is in the world, from explanations, which depend on descriptions [Davidson, by Schaffer,J] |
| 8403 | Either facts, or highly unspecific events, serve better as causes than concrete events [Field,H on Davidson] |
| 8346 | Full descriptions can demonstrate sufficiency of cause, but not necessity [Davidson] |
| 4778 | A singular causal statement is true if it is held to fall under a law [Davidson, by Psillos] |