10 ideas
23367 | Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus] |
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |