9 ideas
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
9354 | Why should necessities only be knowable a priori? That Hesperus is Phosporus is known empirically [Devitt] |
9353 | We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt] |
9356 | The idea of the a priori is so obscure that it won't explain anything [Devitt] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |