8 ideas
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
10529 | If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K] |
10530 | Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K] |
19701 | Fallibilism is consistent with dogmatism or scepticism, and is not alternative to them [Dougherty] |
19700 | It is best to see the fallibility in the reasons, rather than in the agents or the knowledge [Dougherty] |
19702 | We can't normally say that we know something 'but it might be false' [Dougherty] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |