8 ideas
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
19691 | Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm] |
19690 | 'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm] |
19692 | You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
4871 | A thing is free if it acts only by the necessity of its own nature [Spinoza] |
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] |