17 ideas
| 12124 | Metaphysics is the best knowledge, because it is the simplest [Bacon] |
| 12123 | Natural history supports physical knowledge, which supports metaphysical knowledge [Bacon] |
| 12119 | Physics studies transitory matter; metaphysics what is abstracted and necessary [Bacon] |
| 12120 | Physics is of material and efficient causes, metaphysics of formal and final causes [Bacon] |
| 12732 | Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz] |
| 12121 | We don't assume there is no land, because we can only see sea [Bacon] |
| 3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
| 12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
| 3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
| 12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
| 19438 | Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz] |
| 12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
| 19415 | Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz] |
| 12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
| 12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |
| 3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |
| 19439 | God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz] |