9 ideas
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
15538 | Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis] |
18617 | Substances, unlike aggregates, can survive a change of parts [Mumford] |
15537 | If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis] |
15536 | We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis] |
18618 | Maybe possibilities are recombinations of the existing elements of reality [Mumford] |
18619 | Combinatorial possibility has to allow all elements to be combinable, which seems unlikely [Mumford] |
18620 | Combinatorial possibility relies on what actually exists (even over time), but there could be more [Mumford] |
15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |