7 ideas
16980 | We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
16979 | It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |