8 ideas
| 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] |
| 7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
| 5061 | Animals are semi-rational because they connect facts, but they don't see causes [Leibniz] |
| 3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
| 18555 | The beautiful is that from which nothing can be subtracted and to which nothing can be added [Alberti] |
| 5063 | Music charms, although its beauty is the harmony of numbers [Leibniz] |