8 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
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] |
14367 | An explanation is a causal graph [Woodward,J, by Strevens] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |