9 ideas
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
10502 | We can rise by degrees through abstraction, with higher levels representing more things [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
18258 | We can only know the exterior world via our ideas [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
16784 | Forms make things distinct and explain the properties, by pure form, or arrangement of parts [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10499 | We know by abstraction because we only understand composite things a part at a time [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10501 | A triangle diagram is about all triangles, if some features are ignored [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10500 | No one denies that a line has width, but we can just attend to its length [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |