14 ideas
22361 | Contextual values are acceptable in research, but not in its final evaluation [Reichenbach, by Reiss/Sprenger] |
17879 | Axiomatising set theory makes it all relative [Skolem] |
13536 | Skolem did not believe in the existence of uncountable sets [Skolem] |
17878 | If a 1st-order proposition is satisfied, it is satisfied in a denumerably infinite domain [Skolem] |
17880 | Integers and induction are clear as foundations, but set-theory axioms certainly aren't [Skolem] |
17881 | Mathematician want performable operations, not propositions about objects [Skolem] |
10496 | Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen] |
10497 | In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen] |
10494 | Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen] |
10495 | Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen] |
18278 | Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach] |
10498 | Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen] |
8410 | A theory of causal relations yields an asymmetry which defines the direction of time [Reichenbach, by Salmon] |
14935 | The direction of time is grounded in the direction of causation [Reichenbach, by Ladyman/Ross] |