9 ideas
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
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] |
9465 | Substitutional universal quantification retains truth for substitution of terms of the same type [Jacquette] |
9466 | Nominalists like substitutional quantification to avoid the metaphysics of objects [Jacquette] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |