6 ideas
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
19590 | Empiricists are passive thinkers, given their philosophy by the external world and fate [Novalis] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |