8 ideas
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
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] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |