12 ideas
| 21855 | Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord] |
| 22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
| 22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
| 15990 | Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke] |
| 22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
| 15994 | If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke] |
| 22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
| 22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
| 22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
| 21866 | Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord] |
| 22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
| 22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |