8 ideas
| 21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
| 13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
| 21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
| 21386 | We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus] |
| 21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
| 21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
| 14051 | A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus] |
| 1828 | God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus] |