10 ideas
| 22626 | Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher] |
| 15148 | Powers give explanations, without being necessary for some class membership [Chakravartty] |
| 10650 | In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher] |
| 15145 | A kind essence is the necessary and sufficient properties for membership of a class [Chakravartty] |
| 15147 | Cluster kinds are explained simply by sharing some properties, not by an 'essence' [Chakravartty] |
| 15144 | Explanation of causal phenomena concerns essential kinds - but also lack of them [Chakravartty] |
| 15146 | Some kinds, such as electrons, have essences, but 'cluster kinds' do not [Chakravartty] |
| 15151 | Many causal laws do not refer to kinds, but only to properties [Chakravartty] |
| 20365 | We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher] |
| 1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |