8 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
16616 | Substances 'substand' (beneath accidents), or 'subsist' (independently) [Eustachius] |
16585 | Prime matter is free of all forms, but has the potential for all forms [Eustachius] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |