9 ideas
20947 | Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder] |
16659 | Relations do not add anything to reality, though they are real aspects of the world [Olivi] |
16672 | Quantity is the quantified parts of a thing, plus location and coordination [Olivi] |
16673 | Quantity just adds union and location to the extension of parts [Olivi] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
20949 | Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder] |
7669 | We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin] |
7668 | Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin] |
16663 | Things are limited by the species to certain modes of being [Olivi] |