10 ideas
6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
9216 | Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K] |
9214 | Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K] |
2561 | For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty] |
13195 | To explain a house we must describe its use, as well as its parts [Leibniz] |
13193 | Active force is not just potential for action, since it involves a real effort or striving [Leibniz] |
13194 | God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz] |
9215 | Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K] |
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] |