8 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
13489 | Von Neumann treated cardinals as a special sort of ordinal [Neumann, by Hart,WD] |
12336 | A von Neumann ordinal is a transitive set with transitive elements [Neumann, by Badiou] |
18179 | For Von Neumann the successor of n is n U {n} (rather than {n}) [Neumann, by Maddy] |
18180 | Von Neumann numbers are preferred, because they continue into the transfinite [Maddy on Neumann] |
15925 | Each Von Neumann ordinal number is the set of its predecessors [Neumann, by Lavine] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
3648 | Empiricists are collecting ants; rationalists are spinning spiders; and bees do both [Bacon] |