19 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] |
| 21054 | Reason enables the unbounded extension of our rules and intentions [Kant] |
| 16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
| 16793 | A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another [Buridan] |
| 12121 | We don't assume there is no land, because we can only see sea [Bacon] |
| 16577 | Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed [Buridan] |
| 12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
| 12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
| 16576 | Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets [Buridan] |
| 12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
| 21053 | The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature [Kant] |
| 21055 | Our aim is a constitution which combines maximum freedom with strong restraint [Kant] |
| 21056 | The vitality of business needs maximum freedom (while avoiding harm to others) [Kant] |
| 21057 | The highest ideal of social progress is a universal cosmopolitan existence [Kant] |
| 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] |