10 ideas
7719 | European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead] |
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
10656 | With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi] |
15389 | In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
15247 | Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden] |
16962 | Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |