12 ideas
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
9212 | Possible states of affairs are not propositions; a proposition can't be a state of affairs! [Fine,K] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
9213 | The actual world is a possible world, so we can't define possible worlds as 'what might have been' [Fine,K] |
3444 | If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm] |
3446 | For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm] |
9268 | If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
3442 | Responsibility seems to conflict with events being either caused or not caused [Chisholm] |
3443 | Desires may rule us, but are we responsible for our desires? [Chisholm] |
3445 | Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm] |