8 ideas
20771 | Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius] |
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
12739 | If we are dreaming, it is sufficient that the events are coherent, and obey laws [Leibniz] |
12738 | Successful prediction shows proficiency in nature [Leibniz] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
20831 | The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |