7 ideas
16676 | Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham] |
18200 | Very large sets should be studied in an 'if-then' spirit [Putnam] |
18199 | Indispensability strongly supports predicative sets, and somewhat supports impredicative sets [Putnam] |
8857 | We must quantify over numbers for science; but that commits us to their existence [Putnam] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
16675 | Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |