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] |
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] |
19594 | General statements about nature are not valid [Novalis] |
12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
19596 | The whole body is involved in the formation of thoughts [Novalis] |
22465 | We see a moral distinction between doing and allowing to happen [Foot] |
22466 | We see a moral distinction between our aims and their foreseen consequences [Foot] |
22467 | Acts and omissions only matter if they concern doing something versus allowing it [Foot] |
22470 | A good moral system benefits its participants, and so demands reciprocity [Foot] |
22468 | Virtues can have aims, but good states of affairs are not among them [Foot] |
22469 | Some virtues imply rules, and others concern attachment [Foot] |
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] |