14 ideas
10496 | Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen] |
10497 | In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen] |
10494 | Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen] |
10495 | Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen] |
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
10498 | Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen] |
22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |