12 ideas
| 15797 | All structures are dispositional, objects are dispositions sets, and events manifest dispositions [Fetzer] |
| 15800 | All events and objects are dispositional, and hence all structural properties are dispositional [Fetzer] |
| 17488 | Empiricist theories are sets of laws, which give explanations and reductions [Glennan] |
| 17493 | Modern mechanism need parts with spatial, temporal and function facts, and diagrams [Glennan] |
| 17487 | Mechanistic philosophy of science is an alternative to the empiricist law-based tradition [Glennan] |
| 17489 | Mechanisms are either systems of parts or sequences of activities [Glennan] |
| 17490 | 17th century mechanists explained everything by the kinetic physical fundamentals [Glennan] |
| 17491 | Unlike the lawlike approach, mechanistic explanation can allow for exceptions [Glennan] |
| 15798 | Kinds are arrangements of dispositions [Fetzer] |
| 17494 | Since causal events are related by mechanisms, causation can be analysed in that way [Glennan] |
| 15799 | Lawlike sentences are general attributions of disposition to all members of some class [Fetzer] |
| 1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |