10 ideas
5435 | An interpreter of a text, because of wider knowledge, can understand it better than its author [Schleiermacher, by Mautner] |
22028 | Unity emerges from understanding particulars, so understanding is prior to seeing unity [Schleiermacher] |
1403 | A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
16793 | A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another [Buridan] |
16726 | Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them? [Buridan] |
16577 | Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed [Buridan] |
16576 | Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets [Buridan] |
20959 | Concepts are only analytic once the predicate is absorbed into the subject [Schleiermacher] |