17 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
23634 | Accepting the existence of anything presupposes the notion of existence [Reid] |
23635 | Truths are self-evident to sensible persons who understand them clearly without prejudice [Reid] |
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] |
7631 | Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is [Reid] |
23637 | Primary qualities are the object of mathematics [Reid] |
23638 | Secondary qualities conjure up, and are confused with, the sensations which produce them [Reid] |
23639 | It is unclear whether a toothache is in the mind or in the tooth, but the word has a single meaning [Reid] |
6492 | Reid is seen as the main direct realist of the eighteenth century [Reid, by Robinson,H] |
23641 | People dislike believing without evidence, and try to avoid it [Reid] |
23642 | If non-rational evidence reaches us, it is reason which then makes use of it [Reid] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
23640 | Only mature minds can distinguish the qualities of a body [Reid] |
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] |