10 ideas
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
16705 | Whiteness isn't created in an alteration, because it is just this-being-white [Oresme] |
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] |
16695 | Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
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] |