14 ideas
7855 | Some suggest that materialism is empty, because 'physical' cannot be properly characterized [Mellor/Crane, by Papineau] |
12756 | Substance is a force for acting and being acted upon [Leibniz] |
12755 | Final causes can help with explanations in physics [Leibniz] |
6120 | Causation depends on intrinsic properties [Mellor/Crane] |
12760 | Something rather like souls (though not intelligent) could be found everywhere [Leibniz] |
6121 | There are many psychophysicals laws - about the effects of sweets, colours and soft cushions [Mellor/Crane] |
6122 | No defences of physicalism can deprive psychology of the ontological authority of other sciences [Mellor/Crane] |
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] |