10 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
16639 | Only individual bodies exist [Bacon] |
16033 | There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon] |
11993 | Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung] |
11997 | A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung] |
11992 | Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung] |
21950 | Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon] |
11995 | Some peripheral properties are explained by essential ones, but don't themselves explain properties [Kung] |
11996 | Some non-essential properties may explain more than essential-but-peripheral ones do [Kung] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |