21 ideas
15957 | Essential definitions show the differences that discriminate things, and make them what they are [Boyle] |
5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
15965 | Boyle attacked a contemporary belief that powers were occult things [Boyle, by Alexander,P] |
16735 | In the 17th century, 'disposition' usually just means the spatial arrangement of parts [Boyle, by Pasnau] |
16034 | Form is not a separate substance, but just the manner, modification or 'stamp' of matter [Boyle] |
15953 | To cite a substantial form tells us what produced the effect, but not how it did it [Boyle] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
15962 | Boyle's term 'texture' is not something you feel, but is unobservable structures of particles [Boyle, by Alexander,P] |
15964 | Boyle's secondary qualities are not illusory, or 'in the mind' [Boyle, by Alexander,P] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
15960 | Explanation is deducing a phenomenon from some nature better known to us [Boyle] |
5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
15952 | The corpuscles just have shape, size and motion, which explains things without 'sympathies' or 'forces' [Boyle, by Alexander,P] |
15972 | The corpuscular theory allows motion, but does not include forces between the particles [Boyle, by Alexander,P] |
5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |