13 ideas
13152 | We can talk of 'innumerable number', about the infinite points on a line [Newton] |
13151 | Not all infinites are equal [Newton] |
23900 | Chance is compatible with necessity, and the two occur together [Weil] |
23899 | The secret of art is that beauty is a just blend of unity and its opposite [Weil] |
6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
15863 | The principles of my treatise are designed to fit with a belief in God [Newton] |
6616 | Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis] |
8340 | I do not pretend to know the cause of gravity [Newton] |
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] |
13150 | The motions of the planets could only derive from an intelligent agent [Newton] |
12178 | That gravity should be innate and essential to matter is absurd [Newton] |