21 ideas
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
6027 | From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus] |
12790 | Generalisations must be invariant to explain anything [Leuridan] |
12789 | Biological functions are explained by disposition, or by causal role [Leuridan] |
14386 | Mechanisms are ontologically dependent on regularities [Leuridan] |
12787 | Mechanisms can't explain on their own, as their models rest on pragmatic regularities [Leuridan] |
14384 | We can show that regularities and pragmatic laws are more basic than mechanisms [Leuridan] |
14388 | Mechanisms must produce macro-level regularities, but that needs micro-level regularities [Leuridan] |
14389 | There is nothing wrong with an infinite regress of mechanisms and regularities [Leuridan] |
22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |
22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |
14387 | Rather than dispositions, functions may be the element that brought a thing into existence [Leuridan] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
14382 | Pragmatic laws allow prediction and explanation, to the extent that reality is stable [Leuridan] |
14385 | Strict regularities are rarely discovered in life sciences [Leuridan] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
14383 | A 'law of nature' is just a regularity, not some entity that causes the regularity [Leuridan] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |