8 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |
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] |