18 ideas
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
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] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
1757 | The Electra: she knows this man, but not that he is her brother [Eucleides, by Diog. Laertius] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |
3028 | The chief good is unity, sometimes seen as prudence, or God, or intellect [Eucleides] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [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] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |