9 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
13230 | Particular essence is often captured by generality [Steiner,M] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
13229 | Maybe an instance of a generalisation is more explanatory than the particular case [Steiner,M] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
13231 | Explanatory proofs rest on 'characterizing properties' of entities or structure [Steiner,M] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |