18 ideas
6294 | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God [John] |
8821 | Jesus said he bore witness to the truth. Pilate asked, What is truth? [John] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
8388 | Causation is either direct realism, Humean reduction, non-Humean reduction or theoretical realism [Tooley] |
8389 | Causation distinctions: reductionism/realism; Humean/non-Humean states; observable/non-observable [Tooley] |
8416 | Reductionists can't explain accidents, uninstantiated laws, probabilities, or the existence of any laws [Tooley] |
8393 | We can only reduce the direction of causation to the direction of time if we are realist about the latter [Tooley] |
8390 | Causation is directly observable in pressure on one's body, and in willed action [Tooley] |
8418 | Quantum physics suggests that the basic laws of nature are probabilistic [Tooley] |
8392 | Probabilist laws are compatible with effects always or never happening [Tooley] |
8399 | The actual cause may not be the most efficacious one [Tooley] |
8391 | In counterfactual worlds there are laws with no instances, so laws aren't supervenient on actuality [Tooley] |
8394 | Explaining causation in terms of laws can't explain the direction of causation [Tooley] |
8398 | Causation is a concept of a relation the same in all worlds, so it can't be a physical process [Tooley] |
8140 | God is love [John] |
8141 | He that does evil has not seen God [John] |
8139 | If you love the world, then you do not love the Father [John] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |