8 ideas
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] |
3299 | In logic identity involves reflexivity (x=x), symmetry (if x=y, then y=x) and transitivity (if x=y and y=z, then x=z) [Baillie] |
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] |