14 ideas
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
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] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |