10 ideas
| 20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
| 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] |
| 7906 | When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha] |
| 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] |
| 7904 | The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha] |
| 7905 | The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha] |