4 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
11946 | Propensities are part of a situation, not part of the objects [Popper] |
6019 | If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |