11 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
1554 | Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |
1555 | People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus] |
1543 | He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus] |
535 | The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus] |