9 ideas
7401 | Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck] |
5454 | Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo] |
16560 | Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
15119 | Aristotelian explanation by essence may need to draw on knowledge of other essences [Aristotle, by Koslicki] |
3645 | To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
23302 | Plants have far less life than animals, but more life than other corporeal entities [Aristotle] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
23301 | There is a gradual proceeding from the inanimate to animals, with no clear borderlines [Aristotle] |