9 ideas
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
19426 | 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz] |
17945 | Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas] |
17946 | Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
19427 | True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |