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15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
5163 | Basic propositions refer to a single experience, are incorrigible, and conclusively verifiable [Ayer] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
5167 | The argument from analogy fails, so the best account of other minds is behaviouristic [Ayer] |
5164 | A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it [Ayer] |
5165 | Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement [Ayer] |
5166 | The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition [Ayer] |
5162 | Sentences only express propositions if they are meaningful; otherwise they are 'statements' [Ayer] |
5168 | Moral approval and disapproval concerns classes of actions, rather than particular actions [Ayer] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |