8 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
19087 | The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |