17 ideas
12124 | Metaphysics is the best knowledge, because it is the simplest [Bacon] |
12123 | Natural history supports physical knowledge, which supports metaphysical knowledge [Bacon] |
12119 | Physics studies transitory matter; metaphysics what is abstracted and necessary [Bacon] |
12120 | Physics is of material and efficient causes, metaphysics of formal and final causes [Bacon] |
5062 | First: there must be reasons; Second: why anything at all?; Third: why this? [Leibniz] |
19377 | A monad and its body are living, so life is everywhere, and comes in infinite degrees [Leibniz] |
19353 | 'Perception' is basic internal representation, and 'apperception' is reflective knowledge of perception [Leibniz] |
12121 | We don't assume there is no land, because we can only see sea [Bacon] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
5061 | Animals are semi-rational because they connect facts, but they don't see causes [Leibniz] |
12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
5063 | Music charms, although its beauty is the harmony of numbers [Leibniz] |
12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |