8 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
15194 | Time, as it appears in standard modern science, is bad verificationist metaphysics [Smith,Q, by Le Poidevin] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |