21 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] |
| 21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 12121 | We don't assume there is no land, because we can only see sea [Bacon] |
| 21942 | Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
| 19594 | General statements about nature are not valid [Novalis] |
| 12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
| 21941 | Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
| 19596 | The whole body is involved in the formation of thoughts [Novalis] |
| 21939 | The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21940 | Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault] |
| 21116 | Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten] |
| 19593 | Persons are shaped by a life history; splendid persons are shaped by world history [Novalis] |
| 19595 | Nature is a whole, and its individual parts cannot be wholly understood [Novalis] |
| 12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
| 19592 | The basic relations of nature are musical [Novalis] |
| 12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |