4 ideas
21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
4298 | All items of possible human knowledge are interconnected, and can be reached by inference [Descartes] |
21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |