10 ideas
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |