16 ideas
12124 | Metaphysics is the best knowledge, because it is the simplest [Bacon] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
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] |
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] |
7073 | I am a creative nothing, out of which I myself create everything [Stirner] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |