6 ideas
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
16079 | De re modal predicates are ambiguous [Lewis, by Rudder Baker] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |