9 ideas
7401 | Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck] |
5454 | Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo] |
16560 | Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
13550 | To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca] |
13549 | Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca] |
3645 | To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo] |
13548 | The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |