4 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
12708 | The soul is not a substance but a substantial form, the first active faculty [Leibniz] |
14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |