7 ideas
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] |
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
16614 | Matter and form give true unity; subject and accident is just unity 'per accidens' [Duns Scotus] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |