9 ideas
7855 | Some suggest that materialism is empty, because 'physical' cannot be properly characterized [Mellor/Crane, by Papineau] |
8386 | Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane] |
6120 | Causation depends on intrinsic properties [Mellor/Crane] |
18088 | Intentionality is the mark of dispositions, not of the mental [Place] |
6121 | There are many psychophysicals laws - about the effects of sweets, colours and soft cushions [Mellor/Crane] |
6122 | No defences of physicalism can deprive psychology of the ontological authority of other sciences [Mellor/Crane] |
8387 | A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties [Crane] |
8384 | The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane] |
18089 | Dispositions are not general laws, but laws of the natures of individual entities [Place] |