5 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
1515 | Pythagoreans believe it is absurd to seek for goodness anywhere except with the gods [Iamblichus] |