8 ideas
19433 | The universe is infinitely varied, so the Buridan's Ass dilemma could never happen [Leibniz] |
6564 | To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine] |
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] |
19434 | There may be a world where dogs smell their game at a thousand leagues [Leibniz] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |