13 ideas
8329 | Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley] |
20180 | A happy and joyous life must largely be a quiet life [Russell] |
20178 | Life is now more interesting, but boredom is more frightening [Russell] |
20176 | Boredom is an increasingly strong motivating power [Russell] |
20177 | Boredom always involves not being fully occupied [Russell] |
20179 | Happiness involves enduring boredom, and the young should be taught this [Russell] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
8324 | The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world [Sosa/Tooley] |
8328 | Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts [Sosa/Tooley] |
8327 | If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation [Sosa/Tooley] |
8330 | Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both? [Sosa/Tooley] |
8325 | The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |