20 ideas
7085 | The main problem of philosophy is what can and cannot be thought and expressed [Wittgenstein, by Grayling] |
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] |
9358 | There are several logics, none of which will ever derive falsehoods from truth [Lewis,CI] |
9357 | Excluded middle is just our preference for a simplified dichotomy in experience [Lewis,CI] |
9364 | Names represent a uniformity in experience, or they name nothing [Lewis,CI] |
23463 | Atomic facts correspond to true elementary propositions [Wittgenstein] |
9362 | Necessary truths are those we will maintain no matter what [Lewis,CI] |
9365 | We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI] |
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] |
9361 | We have to separate the mathematical from physical phenomena by abstraction [Lewis,CI] |
23490 | A thought is mental constituents that relate to reality as words do [Wittgenstein] |
12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
9363 | Science seeks classification which will discover laws, essences, and predictions [Lewis,CI] |
12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |