9 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] |
15710 | Bohr explained the periodic table and chemical properties of elements, using the quantum atom [Kumar] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
17371 | Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
17372 | The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt] |
17373 | Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt] |