10 ideas
2602 | What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes] |
2601 | Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them [Descartes] |
2600 | The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought [Descartes] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
6616 | Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis] |
6615 | A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis] |
6614 | A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws [Ellis] |
6612 | Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |