8 ideas
15464 | The distinction between dispositional and 'categorical' properties leads to confusion [Lewis] |
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
15463 | All dispositions must have causal bases [Lewis] |
15461 | A 'finkish' disposition is real, but disappears when the stimulus occurs [Lewis] |
15462 | Backtracking counterfactuals go from supposed events to their required causal antecedents [Lewis] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |