15 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] |
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
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] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
21867 | Conatus is brain circuits seeking survival and well-being [Damasio] |
12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |