19 ideas
| 21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
| 12756 | Substance is a force for acting and being acted upon [Leibniz] |
| 21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
| 12755 | Final causes can help with explanations in physics [Leibniz] |
| 7647 | The imagination alone perceives all objects; it is the soul, playing all its roles [La Mettrie] |
| 12760 | Something rather like souls (though not intelligent) could be found everywhere [Leibniz] |
| 7645 | When falling asleep, the soul becomes paralysed and weak, just like the body [La Mettrie] |
| 23225 | The soul's faculties depend on the brain, and are simply the brain's organisation [La Mettrie] |
| 7652 | Man is a machine, and there exists only one substance, diversely modified [La Mettrie] |
| 7650 | All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning [La Mettrie] |
| 7651 | With wonderful new machines being made, a speaking machine no longer seems impossible [La Mettrie] |
| 7648 | The sun and rain weren't made for us; they sometimes burn us, or spoil our seeds [La Mettrie] |
| 12759 | There are atoms of substance, but no atoms of bulk or extension [Leibniz] |
| 12718 | Secondary matter is active and complete; primary matter is passive and incomplete [Leibniz] |
| 11854 | If there is some trace of God in things, that would explain their natural force [Leibniz] |
| 12758 | It is plausible to think substances contain the same immanent force seen in our free will [Leibniz] |
| 7646 | There is no abrupt transition from man to animal; only language has opened a gap [La Mettrie] |
| 19408 | To say that nature or the one universal substance is God is a pernicious doctrine [Leibniz] |
| 7649 | There is no clear idea of the soul, which should only refer to our thinking part [La Mettrie] |