9 ideas
594 | Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle] |
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] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
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] |
1558 | Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus] |
2632 | Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero] |