Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Parmenides', 'The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism' and 'Letters to Burcher De Volder'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
10 ideas
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited
225
|
The unlimited has no shape and is endless [Plato]
|
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
233
|
Some things do not partake of the One [Plato]
|
2062
|
The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration [Plato]
|
231
|
Everything partakes of the One in some way [Plato]
|
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension
13185
|
Even if extension is impenetrable, this still offers no explanation for motion and its laws [Leibniz]
|
26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 2. Defining Kinds
12681
|
There are natural kinds of processes [Ellis]
|
26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds
12680
|
Natural kind structures go right down to the bottom level [Ellis]
|
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
13177
|
An entelechy is a law of the series of its event within some entity [Leibniz]
|
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
12675
|
Laws of nature are just descriptions of how things are disposed to behave [Ellis]
|
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
13093
|
The only permanence in things, constituting their substance, is a law of continuity [Leibniz]
|