12 ideas
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] |
12177 | Human artefacts may have essences, in their purposes [Popper] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
12176 | Science does not aim at ultimate explanations [Popper] |
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] |
12175 | Galilean science aimed at true essences, as the ultimate explanations [Popper] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
12179 | Essentialist views of science prevent further questions from being raised [Popper] |
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] |