8 ideas
17807 | To study formal systems, look at the whole thing, and not just how it is constructed in steps [Curry] |
17806 | It is untenable that mathematics is general physical truths, because it needs infinity [Curry] |
17808 | Saying mathematics is logic is merely replacing one undefined term by another [Curry] |
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
2594 | A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |
20646 | Helmholtz used 'energy' to mathematically link heat, light, electricity and magnetism [Helmholtz, by Watson] |
20973 | All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Helmholtz, by Papineau] |