16 ideas
15970 | People generalise because it is easier to understand, and that is mistaken for deep philosophy [Feynman] |
17486 | Supervenience is simply modally robust property co-variance [Hendry] |
17481 | Nuclear charge (plus laws) explains electron structure and spectrum, but not vice versa [Hendry] |
17478 | Maybe two kinds are the same if there is no change of entropy on isothermal mixing [Hendry] |
9410 | Physical Laws are rhythms and patterns in nature, revealed by analysis [Feynman] |
17479 | The nature of an element must survive chemical change, so it is the nucleus, not the electrons [Hendry] |
17484 | Maybe the nature of water is macroscopic, and not in the microstructure [Hendry] |
17485 | Maybe water is the smallest part of it that still counts as water (which is H2O molecules) [Hendry] |
18530 | Nobody understands quantum mechanics [Feynman] |
17707 | We should regard space as made up of many tiny pieces [Feynman, by Mares] |
17483 | Water continuously changes, with new groupings of molecules [Hendry] |
17482 | Compounds can differ with the same collection of atoms, so structure matters too [Hendry] |
17477 | Defining elements by atomic number allowed atoms of an element to have different masses [Hendry] |
17476 | Elements survive chemical change, and are tracked to explain direction and properties [Hendry] |
17480 | Generally it is nuclear charge (not nuclear mass) which determines behaviour [Hendry] |
3029 | Stilpo said if Athena is a daughter of Zeus, then a statue is only the child of a sculptor, and so is not a god [Stilpo, by Diog. Laertius] |