Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Particulars in Particular Clothing', 'The Rationalists' and 'Cosmic Apprentice'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

16567

Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

18431

Internal relations combine some tropes into a nucleus, which bears the non-essential tropes [Simons, by Edwards]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]