11 ideas
22626 | Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher] |
10650 | In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher] |
411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
22137 | Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter] |
18197 | Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
20365 | We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |