13 ideas
20771 | Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius] |
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] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
22361 | Contextual values are acceptable in research, but not in its final evaluation [Reichenbach, by Reiss/Sprenger] |
18278 | Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach] |
6028 | Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius] |
20831 | The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
8410 | A theory of causal relations yields an asymmetry which defines the direction of time [Reichenbach, by Salmon] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
14935 | The direction of time is grounded in the direction of causation [Reichenbach, by Ladyman/Ross] |
5993 | The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman] |