8 ideas
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
6215 | 'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |
19384 | Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |