13 ideas
| 22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
| 22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
| 4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
| 22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
| 4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
| 22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
| 22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
| 20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
| 22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
| 22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
| 4316 | Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham] |
| 22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |
| 4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |