10 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] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
14644 | If my conception of pain derives from me, it is a contradiction to speak of another's pain [Malcolm] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
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] |
1422 | God's existence is either necessary or impossible, and no one has shown that the concept of God is contradictory [Malcolm] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |