8 ideas
11193 | Understanding begins with the notion of being and essence [Avicenna] |
17809 | Gödel showed that the syntactic approach to the infinite is of limited value [Kreisel] |
17810 | The study of mathematical foundations needs new non-mathematical concepts [Kreisel] |
11209 | The simple's whatness is its very self [Avicenna] |
11204 | The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness [Avicenna] |
15036 | An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars) [Avicenna, by Panaccio] |
17811 | The natural conception of points ducks the problem of naming or constructing each point [Kreisel] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |