9 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
14365 | Scientific understanding is always the grasping of a correct explanation [Strevens] |
14368 | We may 'understand that' the cat is on the mat, but not at all 'understand why' it is there [Strevens] |
14369 | Understanding is a precondition, comes in degrees, is active, and holistic - unlike explanation [Strevens] |
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] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |