20 ideas
3798 | An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett] |
3801 | Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse [Dennett] |
12756 | Substance is a force for acting and being acted upon [Leibniz] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
3795 | Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified) [Dennett] |
12755 | Final causes can help with explanations in physics [Leibniz] |
3797 | I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett] |
3803 | Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett] |
3800 | You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |
12760 | Something rather like souls (though not intelligent) could be found everywhere [Leibniz] |
3796 | The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations [Dennett] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
12759 | There are atoms of substance, but no atoms of bulk or extension [Leibniz] |
12718 | Secondary matter is active and complete; primary matter is passive and incomplete [Leibniz] |
11854 | If there is some trace of God in things, that would explain their natural force [Leibniz] |
12758 | It is plausible to think substances contain the same immanent force seen in our free will [Leibniz] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
19408 | To say that nature or the one universal substance is God is a pernicious doctrine [Leibniz] |