9 ideas
22366 | There is no objectivity in social sciences - only viewpoints for selecting and organising data [Weber] |
22367 | The results of social research can be true, and not just subjectively valid for one person [Weber] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |