9 ideas
7401 | Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck] |
5454 | Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo] |
16560 | Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver] |
20416 | By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp] |
20417 | Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both) [Kemp] |
20418 | The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means [Kemp] |
20419 | We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it [Kemp] |
4677 | If suicide is wrong because only God disposes of our lives, it must also be wrong to save lives [Hume] |
3645 | To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo] |