9 ideas
1403 | A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG] |
10190 | From the axiomatic point of view, mathematics is a storehouse of abstract structures [Bourbaki] |
16705 | Whiteness isn't created in an alteration, because it is just this-being-white [Oresme] |
16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
16695 | Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme] |
16793 | A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another [Buridan] |
16726 | Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them? [Buridan] |
16577 | Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed [Buridan] |
16576 | Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets [Buridan] |