9 ideas
14348 | An 'antidote' allows a manifestation to begin, but then blocks it [Corry] |
14347 | A 'finkish' disposition is one that is lost immediately after the appropriate stimulus [Corry] |
14350 | If a disposition is never instantiated, it shouldn't be part of our theory of nature [Corry] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
14351 | Maybe an experiment unmasks an essential disposition, and reveals its regularities [Corry] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
14346 | Dispositional essentialism says fundamental laws of nature are strict, not ceteris paribus [Corry] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |