8 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
20166 | A man is a responsible agent to the extent he has an intention, and knows what he is doing [Hampshire] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |