5 ideas
17093 | Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon] |
17492 | Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
19436 | Bare or primary matter is passive; it is clothed or secondary matter which contains action [Leibniz] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |