9 ideas
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
16639 | Only individual bodies exist [Bacon] |
16033 | There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon] |
21950 | Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |