9 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
15314 | Faraday's single field of variable forces introduces a criterion of Unity into what is ultimate [Faraday, by Harré/Madden] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |