7 ideas
16415 | Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber] |
16413 | Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber] |
16416 | The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber] |
5060 | All substances analyse down to simple substances, which are souls, or 'monads' [Leibniz] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
5059 | Power rules in efficient causes, but wisdom rules in connecting them to final causes [Leibniz] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |