12 ideas
19426 | 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz] |
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
19427 | True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |