15 ideas
5182 | Claims about 'the Absolute' are not even verifiable in principle [Ayer on Bradley] |
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
6864 | Metaphysics is finding bad reasons for instinctive beliefs [Bradley] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
10999 | Names need a means of reidentifying their referents [Bradley, by Read] |
6422 | Internal relations are said to be intrinsic properties of two terms, and of the whole they compose [Bradley, by Russell] |
7966 | Relations must be linked to their qualities, but that implies an infinite regress of relations [Bradley] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
6404 | British Idealists said reality is a single Mind which experiences itself [Bradley, by Grayling] |
22299 | Bradley's objective idealism accepts reality (the Absolute), but says we can't fully describe it [Bradley, by Potter] |
21343 | Qualities and relations are mere appearance; the Absolute is a single undifferentiated substance [Bradley, by Heil] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
6406 | Reality is one, because plurality implies relations, and they assert a superior unity [Bradley] |
19384 | Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz] |