8 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
16415 | Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber] |
16413 | Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber] |
16416 | The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |