Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Bonaventura, Hermann von Helmholtz and Galileo Galilei

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16643

Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16696

Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

16560

Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / b. Laws of motion

19673

Galileo mathematised movement, and revealed its invariable component - acceleration [Galileo, by Meillassoux]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy

20646

Helmholtz used 'energy' to mathematically link heat, light, electricity and magnetism [Helmholtz, by Watson]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy

20973

All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Helmholtz, by Papineau]