5 ideas
| 5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
| 19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
| 12468 | A state of affairs is only possible if there has been an actual substance to initiate it [Pruss] |
| 5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
| 19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |