8 ideas
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
18617 | Substances, unlike aggregates, can survive a change of parts [Mumford] |
18618 | Maybe possibilities are recombinations of the existing elements of reality [Mumford] |
18619 | Combinatorial possibility has to allow all elements to be combinable, which seems unlikely [Mumford] |
18620 | Combinatorial possibility relies on what actually exists (even over time), but there could be more [Mumford] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |