12 ideas
21560 | Any linguistic expression may lack meaning when taken out of context [Russell] |
21561 | 'The number one is bald' or 'the number one is fond of cream cheese' are meaningless [Russell] |
18130 | Axiom of Reducibility: there is always a function of the lowest possible order in a given level [Russell, by Bostock] |
21562 | There is no complexity without relations, so no propositions, and no truth [Russell] |
8329 | Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley] |
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] |