11 ideas
594 | Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle] |
19729 | 'Modal epistemology' demands a connection between the belief and facts in possible worlds [Black,T] |
19728 | Gettier and lottery cases seem to involve luck, meaning bad connection of beliefs to facts [Black,T] |
24162 | Planck introduced the idea that energy can be quantized [Baggott] |
21731 | Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott] |
21730 | A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott] |
24163 | Free electrons have clouds of virtual particles, arising from field interaction [Baggott] |
24161 | Thermodynamics sees nature as a continuous flow of energy, as radiation and as substance [Baggott] |
21732 | The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott] |
24160 | Particle measurements don't seem to reflect their reality [Baggott] |
2632 | Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero] |