6 ideas
| 5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
| 16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
| 5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
| 6005 | Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley] |
| 12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |
| 2594 | A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche] |