8 ideas
| 13157 | Choose the true hypothesis, which is the most intelligible one [Leibniz] |
| 13158 | The Copernican theory is right because it is the only one offering a good explanation [Leibniz] |
| 21097 | Modern monarchies are (like republics) rule by law, rather than by men [Hume] |
| 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] |