11 ideas
21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
7825 | The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |