9 ideas
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
8406 | Not all explanations are causal, but if a thing can be explained at all, it can be explained causally [Sanford] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
6005 | Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
8407 | A totality of conditions necessary for an occurrence is usually held to be jointly sufficient for it [Sanford] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |