11 ideas
21336 | Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch] |
1767 | Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Crates of Thebes, by Diog. Laertius] |
1403 | A rational donkey would starve to death between two totally identical piles of hay [Buridan, by PG] |
10304 | Very few things in set theory remain valid in intuitionist mathematics [Bernays] |
10303 | Restricted Platonism is just an ideal projection of a domain of thought [Bernays] |
10306 | Mathematical abstraction just goes in a different direction from logic [Bernays] |
16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
16793 | A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another [Buridan] |
16726 | Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them? [Buridan] |
16577 | Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed [Buridan] |
16576 | Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets [Buridan] |