6 ideas
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
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] |
22908 | When one element contains the grounds of the other, the first one is prior in time [Leibniz] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |