8 ideas
11193 | Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna] |
11209 | The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna] |
11204 | The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna] |
13432 | The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz] |
15036 | An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
12696 | Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |