9 ideas
23766 | Don't be tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, by cunning deceptive men [Paul] |
15464 | The distinction between dispositional and 'categorical' properties leads to confusion [Lewis] |
15463 | All dispositions must have causal bases [Lewis] |
15461 | A 'finkish' disposition is real, but disappears when the stimulus occurs [Lewis] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
15462 | Backtracking counterfactuals go from supposed events to their required causal antecedents [Lewis] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
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] |