11 ideas
1403 | A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG] |
3534 | To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S] |
16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
16793 | A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another [Buridan] |
16726 | Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them? [Buridan] |
16577 | Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed [Buridan] |
16576 | Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets [Buridan] |
3398 | Epiphenomenalism makes the mind totally pointless [Alexander,S] |
14494 | Epiphenomenalism is like a pointless nobleman, kept for show, but soon to be abolished [Alexander,S] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |