8 ideas
| 20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
| 20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
| 20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
| 18487 | We want to know what makes sentences true, rather than defining 'true' [McFetridge] |
| 18488 | We normally explain natural events by citing further facts [McFetridge] |
| 20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
| 23609 | I act justly if I follow my Prince in an apparently unjust war, and refusing to fight would be injustice [Hobbes] |
| 20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |