8 ideas
| 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] |
| 20183 | So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen] |
| 17962 | The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest] |
| 20182 | The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen] |
| 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] |