13 ideas
14775 | Numbers are just names devised for counting [Peirce] |
8463 | Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine] |
14776 | That two two-eyed people must have four eyes is a statement about numbers, not a fact [Peirce] |
8461 | The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine] |
14770 | Reasoning is based on statistical induction, so it can't achieve certainty or precision [Peirce] |
14774 | Innate truths are very uncertain and full of error, so they certainly have exceptions [Peirce] |
14773 | A truth is hard for us to understand if it rests on nothing but inspiration [Peirce] |
14772 | If we decide an idea is inspired, we still can't be sure we have got the idea right [Peirce] |
14771 | Only reason can establish whether some deliverance of revelation really is inspired [Peirce] |
14769 | Only imagination can connect phenomena together in a rational way [Peirce] |
8462 | A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine] |
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] |