5 ideas
3663 | How can you contemplate Platonic entities without causal transactions with them? [Putnam] |
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
13165 | Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus] |
9569 | The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |