arsenal
发表于 2025-3-30 09:14:56
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Fallibility
发表于 2025-3-30 13:48:28
Getting Events Wrongussion of events, in the present chapter, by rejecting two event conceptions. The first one is that of events as having a spatiotemporal mereology, a bit like objects. The second, to which I will dedicate the most effort, is Davidson’s conception of events as concrete entities. In the next chapter I will outline what seems to me the correct view.
令人不快
发表于 2025-3-30 16:52:22
Book 2003t first think ofsomething like bending spoons by ‘psychic‘ powers. But no, we are dealing here with something much more puzzling: doing things for reasons, i. e. , what we call agency. Psychic spoon-bending would be a fairly straightforward issue. You just exert some psychic force and bend a spoon,
暖昧关系
发表于 2025-3-30 21:15:46
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HAIL
发表于 2025-3-31 01:23:58
Particulars, Properties, and Relationsrequired, as we will see later on. I have to skip issues about propositions, numbers, facts, or negative and disjunctive items; I will not treat these as particulars, but apart from noting that they do not seem to occupy specific space-time regions, I have no heavy-weight arguments concerning them on offer.
arbovirus
发表于 2025-3-31 08:49:36
A Duality in the Concept of CausalityAll very obvious, but only to those who already understand what causing is. But now try to explain what causality, or causation, is in terms that do not appeal to such understanding! Anscombe (1971, 93) claims that
obnoxious
发表于 2025-3-31 13:10:00
Causal Connectionsal dependence and collateral effects, the near-consensus that immediate action at a distance is impossible, or the assumption that cause and effect must be ‘distinct existences.’ But what is the missing element?
我不明白
发表于 2025-3-31 16:12:09
The Problem of Causal Relatacounterfactual dependence involving mental states as well as of physical connection involving a minded actor. But physical connections are indeed just that: physical. As far as causal connections are concerned, the only relevant properties will be physical-nomic, not mental ones. I came across this passage about Gödel, the mathematician: