10 ideas
8983 | If 'red' is vague, then membership of the set of red things is vague, so there is no set of red things [Sainsbury] |
8986 | We should abandon classifying by pigeon-holes, and classify around paradigms [Sainsbury] |
8982 | Vague concepts are concepts without boundaries [Sainsbury] |
8984 | If concepts are vague, people avoid boundaries, can't spot them, and don't want them [Sainsbury] |
8985 | Boundaryless concepts tend to come in pairs, such as child/adult, hot/cold [Sainsbury] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |