10 ideas
6601 | Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend] |
10502 | We can rise by degrees through abstraction, with higher levels representing more things [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
16740 | A power is not a cause, but an aptitude for a cause [Zabarella] |
18258 | We can only know the exterior world via our ideas [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
2561 | For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty] |
16784 | Forms make things distinct and explain the properties, by pure form, or arrangement of parts [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10499 | We know by abstraction because we only understand composite things a part at a time [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10501 | A triangle diagram is about all triangles, if some features are ignored [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10500 | No one denies that a line has width, but we can just attend to its length [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
16571 | Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella] |