10 ideas
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] |
6900 | A prior understanding of beauty is needed to assert that the Form of the Beautiful is beautiful [Westaway] |
16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
6956 | At what point does an object become 'whole'? [Westaway] |
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] |
7335 | The Chinese Room should be able to ask itself questions in Mandarin [Westaway] |