14 ideas
| 8349 | The best way to do ontology is to make sense of our normal talk [Davidson] |
| 11970 | Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan] |
| 8348 | If we don't assume that events exist, we cannot make sense of our common talk [Davidson] |
| 11969 | Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan] |
| 11971 | The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan] |
| 11973 | Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan] |
| 11972 | Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan] |
| 8347 | Explanations typically relate statements, not events [Davidson] |
| 11967 | Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan] |
| 10371 | Distinguish causation, which is in the world, from explanations, which depend on descriptions [Davidson, by Schaffer,J] |
| 8403 | Either facts, or highly unspecific events, serve better as causes than concrete events [Field,H on Davidson] |
| 8346 | Full descriptions can demonstrate sufficiency of cause, but not necessity [Davidson] |
| 4778 | A singular causal statement is true if it is held to fall under a law [Davidson, by Psillos] |
| 1558 | Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus] |