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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Mathematics without Foundations' and 'Reply to Fourth Objections'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

221	Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
	Full Idea: The absolute good and the beautiful and all which we conceive to be absolute ideas are unknown to us.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 134c)

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

9943	You can't deny a hypothesis a truth-value simply because we may never know it! [Putnam]
	Full Idea: Surely the mere fact that we may never know whether the continuum hypothesis is true or false is by itself just no reason to think that it doesn't have a truth value!
	From: Hilary Putnam (Mathematics without Foundations [1967])
	A reaction: This is Putnam in 1967. Things changed later. Personally I am with the younger man all they way, but I reserve the right to totally change my mind.