16 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] |
5637 | Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton] |
8431 | Problems with Goodman's view of counterfactuals led to a radical approach from Stalnaker and Lewis [Horwich] |
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] |
5636 | Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton] |
5660 | Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton] |
5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |
12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
8432 | Analyse counterfactuals using causation, not the other way around [Horwich] |
12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |