16 ideas
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
16668 | Modes of things exist in some way, without being full-blown substances [Gassendi] |
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
22363 | You have only begun to do real science when you can express it in numbers [Kelvin] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
3400 | Things must have parts to intermingle [Gassendi] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
20644 | Energy has progressed from a mere formula, to a principle pervading all nature [Kelvin] |