11 ideas
| 13195 | To explain a house we must describe its use, as well as its parts [Leibniz] |
| 5880 | Xenocrates held that the soul had no form or substance, but was number [Xenocrates, by Cicero] |
| 13193 | Active force is not just potential for action, since it involves a real effort or striving [Leibniz] |
| 6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
| 13194 | God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz] |
| 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] |
| 13196 | All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz] |
| 13192 | Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz] |