15 ideas
| 472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
| 13195 | To explain a house we must describe its use, as well as its parts [Leibniz] |
| 17527 | Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird] |
| 13193 | Active force is not just potential for action, since it involves a real effort or striving [Leibniz] |
| 1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
| 1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
| 473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
| 469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
| 17528 | The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird] |
| 17526 | The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird] |
| 13194 | God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz] |
| 476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
| 13196 | All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz] |
| 13192 | Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz] |
| 1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |