8 ideas
8956 | What is a singleton set, if a set is meant to be a collection of objects? [Szabó] |
8953 | Abstract entities don't depend on their concrete entities ...but maybe on the totality of concrete things [Szabó] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
8954 | Geometrical circles cannot identify a circular paint patch, presumably because they lack something [Szabó] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
8955 | Abstractions are imperceptible, non-causal, and non-spatiotemporal (the third explaining the others) [Szabó] |
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] |