8 ideas
8921 | Structuralism is now common, studying relations, with no regard for what the objects might be [Hellman] |
8698 | Modal structuralism says mathematics studies possible structures, which may or may not be actualised [Hellman, by Friend] |
9557 | Statements of pure mathematics are elliptical for a sort of modal conditional [Hellman, by Chihara] |
10263 | Modal structuralism can only judge possibility by 'possible' models [Shapiro on Hellman] |
8922 | Maybe mathematical objects only have structural roles, and no intrinsic nature [Hellman] |
20752 | For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett] |
20756 | Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett] |
7073 | I am a creative nothing, out of which I myself create everything [Stirner] |