11938 | The Megarans say something is only capable of something when it is actually doing it [Aristotle] |
15766 | Megaran actualism is just scepticism about the qualities of things [Aristotle] |
15767 | Megaran actualists prevent anything from happening, by denying a capacity for it to happen! [Aristotle] |
21491 | Peirce's later realism about possibilities and generalities went beyond logical positivism [Peirce, by Atkin] |
16945 | We judge things to be soluble if they are the same kind as, or similar to, things that do dissolve [Quine] |
15490 | Explain unmanifested dispositions as structural similarities to objects which have manifested them [Quine, by Martin,CB] |
15315 | What is a field of potentials, if it only consists of possible events? [Harré/Madden] |
15180 | There doesn't seem to be anything in the actual world that can determine modal facts [Sidelle] |
9499 | Megarian actualists deny unmanifested dispositions [Bird] |
14350 | If a disposition is never instantiated, it shouldn't be part of our theory of nature [Corry] |
19017 | Nomological dispositions (unlike ordinary ones) have to be continually realised [Vetter] |