14 ideas
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |