9 ideas
| 21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
| 21238 | Later phenomenologists tried hard to incorporate social relationships [Bakewell] |
| 21237 | Phenomenology begins from the immediate, rather than from axioms and theories [Bakewell] |
| 21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
| 6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
| 6616 | Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis] |
| 6615 | A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis] |
| 6614 | A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws [Ellis] |
| 6612 | Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis] |