8 ideas
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
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] |