12 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] |
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |