Combining Texts

Ideas for 'The Advancement of Learning', 'Letters to Russell' and 'What is Mathematical Truth?'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

7085	The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed [Wittgenstein, by Grayling]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

12124

Metaphysics is the best knowledge, because it is the simplest [Bacon]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

12123

Natural history supports physical knowledge, which supports metaphysical knowledge [Bacon]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

12119

Physics studies transitory matter; metaphysics what is abstracted and necessary [Bacon]

12120

Physics is of material and efficient causes, metaphysics of formal and final causes [Bacon]