12 ideas
| 20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
| 16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
| 18617 | Substances, unlike aggregates, can survive a change of parts [Mumford] |
| 18618 | Maybe possibilities are recombinations of the existing elements of reality [Mumford] |
| 18619 | Combinatorial possibility has to allow all elements to be combinable, which seems unlikely [Mumford] |
| 18620 | Combinatorial possibility relies on what actually exists (even over time), but there could be more [Mumford] |
| 20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
| 16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
| 20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
| 20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |
| 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] |