6 ideas
16740 | A power is not a cause, but an aptitude for a cause [Zabarella] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
16571 | Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella] |
4787 | Causation interaction is an exchange of conserved quantities, such as mass, energy or charge [Dowe, by Psillos] |
14586 | Physical causation consists in transference of conserved quantities [Dowe, by Mumford/Anjum] |
4788 | Dowe commends the Conserved Quantity theory as it avoids mention of counterfactuals [Dowe, by Psillos] |