12 ideas
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
10502 | We can rise by degrees through abstraction, with higher levels representing more things [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
18258 | We can only know the exterior world via our ideas [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
16784 | Forms make things distinct and explain the properties, by pure form, or arrangement of parts [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
4741 | A very powerful computer might have its operations restricted by the addition of consciousness [Clark,T] |
10499 | We know by abstraction because we only understand composite things a part at a time [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10501 | A triangle diagram is about all triangles, if some features are ignored [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10500 | No one denies that a line has width, but we can just attend to its length [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |