8 ideas
16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
16619 | We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
16593 | Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi] |
16729 | How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |