14 ideas
12756 | Substance is a force for acting and being acted upon [Leibniz] |
14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
12755 | Final causes can help with explanations in physics [Leibniz] |
12760 | Something rather like souls (though not intelligent) could be found everywhere [Leibniz] |
14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
12759 | There are atoms of substance, but no atoms of bulk or extension [Leibniz] |
12718 | Secondary matter is active and complete; primary matter is passive and incomplete [Leibniz] |
14806 | If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce] |
11854 | If there is some trace of God in things, that would explain their natural force [Leibniz] |
14803 | The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce] |
12758 | It is plausible to think substances contain the same immanent force seen in our free will [Leibniz] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
19408 | To say that nature or the one universal substance is God is a pernicious doctrine [Leibniz] |