17 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
17505 | Using proper names properly doesn't involve necessary and sufficient conditions [Putnam] |
11908 | Putnam bases essences on 'same kind', but same kinds may not share properties [Mackie,P on Putnam] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
17508 | Science aims at truth, not at 'simplicity' [Putnam] |
8329 | Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley] |
17506 | I now think reference by the tests of experts is a special case of being causally connected [Putnam] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
17507 | Natural kind stereotypes are 'strong' (obvious, like tiger) or 'weak' (obscure, like molybdenum) [Putnam] |
11904 | Express natural kinds as a posteriori predicate connections, not as singular terms [Putnam, by Mackie,P] |
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] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |