10 ideas
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
18239 | What is contemplated must have a higher value than contemplation [Kant, by Korsgaard] |
18238 | Only a good will can give man's being, and hence the world, a final purpose [Kant] |
22053 | The Critique of Judgement aims for a principle that unities humanity and nature [Kant, by Bowie] |
18237 | Without men creation would be in vain, and without final purpose [Kant] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |