9 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |