13 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] |
15148 | Powers give explanations, without being necessary for some class membership [Chakravartty] |
15145 | A kind essence is the necessary and sufficient properties for membership of a class [Chakravartty] |
15147 | Cluster kinds are explained simply by sharing some properties, not by an 'essence' [Chakravartty] |
19353 | 'Perception' is basic internal representation, and 'apperception' is reflective knowledge of perception [Leibniz] |
15144 | Explanation of causal phenomena concerns essential kinds - but also lack of them [Chakravartty] |
5061 | Animals are semi-rational because they connect facts, but they don't see causes [Leibniz] |
5063 | Music charms, although its beauty is the harmony of numbers [Leibniz] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
15146 | Some kinds, such as electrons, have essences, but 'cluster kinds' do not [Chakravartty] |
15151 | Many causal laws do not refer to kinds, but only to properties [Chakravartty] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |