11 ideas
22764 | Ordinary speech is not exact about what is true; we say we are digging a well before the well exists [Sext.Empiricus] |
13157 | Choose the true hypothesis, which is the most intelligible one [Leibniz] |
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
22762 | Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body [Sext.Empiricus] |
22759 | Fools, infants and madmen may speak truly, but do not know [Sext.Empiricus] |
22760 | Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
13158 | The Copernican theory is right because it is the only one offering a good explanation [Leibniz] |
22763 | We can only dream of a winged man if we have experienced men and some winged thing [Sext.Empiricus] |
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] |