8 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
8326 | Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum [Fair, by Sosa/Tooley] |
10379 | Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow [Fair, by Schaffer,J] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |