12 ideas
| 15127 | A categorical basis could hardly explain a disposition if it had no powers of its own [Hawthorne] |
| 15123 | Is the causal profile of a property its essence? [Hawthorne] |
| 15124 | If properties are more than their powers, we could have two properties with the same power [Hawthorne] |
| 15122 | Could two different properties have the same causal profile? [Hawthorne] |
| 4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
| 15128 | We can treat the structure/form of the world differently from the nodes/matter of the world [Hawthorne] |
| 15121 | An individual essence is a necessary and sufficient profile for a thing [Hawthorne] |
| 3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
| 15126 | Maybe scientific causation is just generalisation about the patterns [Hawthorne] |
| 4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |
| 15125 | We only know the mathematical laws, but not much else [Hawthorne] |