10 ideas
| 21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
| 21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
| 14347 | A 'finkish' disposition is one that is lost immediately after the appropriate stimulus [Corry] |
| 14348 | An 'antidote' allows a manifestation to begin, but then blocks it [Corry] |
| 14350 | If a disposition is never instantiated, it shouldn't be part of our theory of nature [Corry] |
| 14351 | Maybe an experiment unmasks an essential disposition, and reveals its regularities [Corry] |
| 21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
| 13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
| 14346 | Dispositional essentialism says fundamental laws of nature are strict, not ceteris paribus [Corry] |
| 20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |