9 ideas
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
20888 | Rape of children is dreadful, but no one thinks children should have a right of consent [Foa] |
20887 | A rape disregards the status of being a person - but so does all assault [Foa] |
20889 | If men should lust and women shouldn't, that makes rape the prevalent sexual model [Foa] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |