24 ideas
19336 | Wisdom involves the desire to achieve perfection [Leibniz] |
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] |
18369 | There are at least fourteen candidates for truth-bearers [Kirkham] |
19318 | A 'sequence' of objects is an order set of them [Kirkham] |
19319 | If one sequence satisfies a sentence, they all do [Kirkham] |
19320 | If we define truth by listing the satisfactions, the supply of predicates must be finite [Kirkham] |
19315 | In quantified language the components of complex sentences may not be sentences [Kirkham] |
19317 | An open sentence is satisfied if the object possess that property [Kirkham] |
7696 | Leibniz first asked 'why is there something rather than nothing?' [Leibniz, by Jacquette] |
19341 | There must be a straining towards existence in the essence of all possible things [Leibniz] |
19428 | Because something does exist, there must be a drive in possible things towards existence [Leibniz] |
19322 | Why can there not be disjunctive, conditional and negative facts? [Kirkham] |
5047 | The world is physically necessary, as its contrary would imply imperfection or moral absurdity [Leibniz] |
12121 | We don't assume there is no land, because we can only see sea [Bacon] |
12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
19343 | We follow the practical rule which always seeks maximum effect for minimum cost [Leibniz] |
19429 | The principle of determination in things obtains the greatest effect with the least effort [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] |