4 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
23261 | A people, not government, creates a constitution, which is essential for legitimacy [Paine] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |